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 bust of a man” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 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 bust of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Three Studies of Man in a Habit
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · ca. 1879

Bust of a Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Figural Sketches
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1775

Honoré de Balzac
Auguste Rodin · 1891

Elevation of a doorcase with figure of a man
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th century

Bust of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390–95

Heads of two men, in the style of Frans Hals
Homer Dodge Martin, American, 1836 - 1897 · ca. 1860

Bust of a Man
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · ca. 1745–50

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument
Francesco Massimiliano Laboureur, Italian, 1767 - 1831 · 1800–1830

Man
Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Portrait of a Man
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar, French, 1762 – 1834 · 1803–06

Terracotta krater
Hirschfeld Workshop · ca. 750–735 BCE

Portrait of a Man with Cap
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1820

Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
Jean Antoine Houdon · 1773

Study for Portrait of a Man
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–1900

Terracotta fragment of a male figure
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Portrait of a Man with a Turban
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Bust
C. Lacroix, Franco-Flemish · ca. 1695–1700

Portrait of an Old Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Marble bust of a man
Artist not stated in the record · mid-1st century CE

Design for a monument in a church
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1750–55

Bronze portrait of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Four Figures
Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro, Italian, 1609 - 1675 · 1630–1640
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. 994 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3860376 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-27 21:06 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.