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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 of a grotesque man” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:29 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 head of a grotesque man
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Three Grotesque Heads in Profile (After Hogarth)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Terracotta head of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Plate 53, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)
Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

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

Four Studies of a Foot
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 16th century

Man
Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Portrait of Hugues Brisville, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · after 1663

Statue of Kneeling Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Architectural Details and Three heads
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

Terracotta statuette of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament
François Marcou, French, 1595 – 1660 · 1657

Terracotta statuette of a mime with a shield
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Ornamental Panel Surmounted with a Head Flanked by Foliage, plate 11 from the Ornamental Panel Surmounted with a Head Flanked by Foliage, from the Livre de Diverses Grotesques peintes dans le Cabinet et Bains de la Reyne Regente, au Palais Royale
Michel Dorigny, 1617 – 1665 · 1647

Terracotta grotesque head
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Portrait of Cassianus Aputeo
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

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

Porte pour le Sallon à l'Italienne Cotté CIX
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Man
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Design for the Embroidery of the Right Top Part of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

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

Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament
François Marcou, French, 1595 – 1660 · 1657

Terracotta head of an old woman
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Plate 25, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren
Hans Vredeman de Vries, Dutch, 1527 - ca. 1606 · 1564
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. 19432 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. 3879364 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-28 03:29 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.