Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Stove and cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Architectural element
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Terracotta antefix (roof tile)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 625–600 BCE

Grotesque for an Oblong Panel
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1730–50

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a maenad
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Battle of the Sea Gods, right half
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475

Terracotta antefix (roof tile)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Black Forest Sketches
Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943 · September 18, 1887

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Mount
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Terracotta gorgoneion antefix (roof tile)
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Roofs and Treetops in Ambato, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 17, 1857

Terracotta gorgoneion antefix (roof tile)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 580–570 BCE

Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

Terracotta antefix
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Fantasy Composed of Heads and a Sculpted Urn
Donato Creti, Italian, 1671–1749 · ca. 1730

Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter of the 5th century BCE

Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Antefix with Head of a Male Deity
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Parish Church of Our Lady of Chiquinquira del Cerrito, Chiquinquira, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1853

Antefix
Artist not stated in the record

Ornamental Vase Design
P. Moithey, French, active 18th century · 1767
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 449 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3896853 matched · 40 examined · 10 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 22:46 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.