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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 plaque of a sphinx” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 05:03 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 plaque of a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 5th century BCE
Designs for Three Pedestals
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770–80
Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 1st quarter of the 5th century BCE
The Sphinx: Everybody's Number
Artist not stated in the record · April 1917
Plaque
Caroline H. Rimmer · ca. 1895–1900
Collage of photographs of the Alpha Phi Alpha "Sphinx Club" fraternity
Addison N. Scurlock, American, 1883 - 1964 · 1923
Terracotta relief of a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 5th century BCE
Noh robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
Terracotta oinochoe:olpe (jug)
Sphinx Painter · ca. 630–610 BCE
A Sphinx with Globe
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)
Polyteleia Painter · ca. 630–615 BCE
Pair of Scissors with Sphinx-shaped Handles
Artist not stated in the record · probably 17th century
Terracotta plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 460–450 BCE
Table with Sphinx Base
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790
Terracotta plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450 BCE
Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Sphinxes and an Owl
Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804 · ca. 1779–84
Fragment of a terracotta plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE
Mount
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805
Terracotta funerary plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 520–510 BCE
Design for Candelabrum and Panel of Grotesques
Unknown · early 16th century
Fragment of a terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE
Design for a Console Table with Sphinx Base
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795
Glass plaque with sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE
Design with Steps and Terrace Guarded by Two Sphinxes
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740
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. 391 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. 3853096 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 05:03 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.