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. 12 shown for “Terracotta group of women seated around a well head” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 06:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Terracotta group of women seated around a well head
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 4th century BCE

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Group R · ca. 420–400 BCE

Seated elder
Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE

Terracotta statuette of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Terracotta rhyton (vase for libations or drinking)
Cow-Head Group · ca. 460 BCE

Terracotta thymiaterion (incense burner)
Stuttgart Group · ca. 325–300 BCE

La Crainte des Traits de l'Amour
Jean-Louis Lemoyne · 1739–40

Terracotta neck-amphora with twisted handles (jar)
Pilos Head Group · ca. 350–325 BCE

Two Young Peasant Women
Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

The Demidoff Table
Lorenzo Bartolini · 1845

King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 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. 1318 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 06:44 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.