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. 20 shown for “Terracotta head of a man, possibly Dionysos” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:09 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 man, possibly Dionysos
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Figural Sketches
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1775

Terracotta head of Dionysos
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Candlestick
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · late 18th century

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

Study of a Man's Head
Pierre Filloeul, French, b. 1696–after 1754 · 1734

Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos")
Pacetti, Vincenzo · 27 BCE–68 CE

Sketchbook Page: Portrait of a Young Man
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

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

Lekythos
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century B.C.

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

Studies for a Young Man, Drapery
Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714 · early 18th century

Terracotta fragment with the upper body of a bearded man
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Studies for Holy Figures
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635

Folded Shirt with Child's Head for "New York Clothing House, Baltimore."
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter of the 5th century BCE

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

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

Saint Agnes (one of a pair)
Diego de Tiedra · mid-16th century
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. 941 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. 3881041 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:09 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.