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. 13 shown for “Terracotta figure of a woman” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:16 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 figure of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Vecchia Contadina (Old Farm Woman)
Angelo Leone · after 1873

King's attendant
Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

Terracotta head of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Terracotta Little Master cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 565–550 BCE

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Woman Painter · ca. 420–400 BCE

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Amasis Painter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Andokides · ca. 530 BCE

Terracotta figure of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Princeton Group · ca. 540–530 BCE

Woman
Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Marble female figure
Artist not stated in the record · 4500–4000 BCE
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. 18263 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. 3858701 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 02:16 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.