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. 14 shown for “Terracotta disk with Aphrodite riding on a swan” — 43 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 05:26 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 disk with Aphrodite riding on a swan
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Putti in a Chariot with Dolphins and Swans
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

Terracotta disk with Aphrodite riding on a goose
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Button, Geraldine Ferraro, Sally Ride
N. G. Slater Corp

Button, ERA is for Everyone, Sally Ride
Artist not stated in the record

Four Antique Goddesses
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · after 1850

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1815

Footed Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller)
Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867 · 1817–18

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

Charger, from the Swan Service (Schwanenservice)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1738

Girl with Swan
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · 1875–80

Design for Nine Circular Paintings in the Bathroom of the Aldini Villa, Montmorency, France
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2513978 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-31 05:26 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.