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. 18 shown for “Terracotta head of an old woman” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:25 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 an old woman
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

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

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

Sheet of Studies: Self-portrait, a Beggar Couple, Heads of an Old Man and Old Woman, etc.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1632

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

Newspaper clippings about Old Calabar
Artist not stated in the record · 1842-1845

Marble statue of an old woman
Artist not stated in the record · 14–68 CE

La Cuisiassa
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Head of an Old Woman
Orazio Borgianni · after 1610

A Reproach (Un Rimprovero)
Artist not stated in the record · 1874

Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Head of an Old Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1788

Terracotta statuette of an emaciated woman
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Fragment of a terracotta statuette of an old woman
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

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

The Old Italian Woman
Edgar Degas · 1857

Estate Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Marble head of an old woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century CE
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. 6052 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2907531 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:25 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.