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Images / art

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 head and torso of a woman” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 16:16 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Terracotta head and torso of a woman

Terracotta head and torso of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–early 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman's Head, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Woman's Head

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish

Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Torso

Torso

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a woman

Terracotta head of a woman

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Woman

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head and torso of Athena

Marble head and torso of Athena

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Young Woman, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Young Woman

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King's attendant, by Giuseppe Gori

King's attendant

Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
A Classic Warrior Receives a Woman, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

A Classic Warrior Receives a Woman

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Woman in Profile, by Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754

Study of a Woman in Profile

Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx

Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter of the 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Facial Expressions, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Facial Expressions

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman, by Lorenzo Mosca

Woman

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Standing Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day), by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Studies of Standing Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head), by Polykleitos

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Public domainThe Met
Drawing Studies with Woman's Face and Man Reclining, and Right Hand with Forearm, by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called Guercino), Italian, 1591 – 1666

Drawing Studies with Woman's Face and Man Reclining, and Right Hand with Forearm

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called Guercino), Italian, 1591 – 1666 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head, by Oxford Class of Head Vases

Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head

Oxford Class of Head Vases · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole

MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Créole

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble female figure

Marble female figure

Artist not stated in the record · 2700 – 2500

Public domainThe Met
GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 2

GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 2

Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statue of a young woman

Terracotta statue of a young woman

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Torsos, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Torsos

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 19151 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. 4064694 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 16:16 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.