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. 14 shown for “Terracotta statuette of Hyakinthos on a swan” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 03:00 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 statuette of Hyakinthos on a swan
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Design for a Candlestick
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1827-1836

Leda and the Swan
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · ca. 1870

Trophy awarded to the Texas Southern University Debate Team
Artist not stated in the record · 1967

Terracotta statuette of a woman looking into a box mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Pietà
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1864

Terracotta statuette of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Terracotta statuette of Harpokrates riding a goose
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE

Fidelity, the Mother of Constant Love
Augustin Pajou · 1799

Marble female figure
Bastis Master · 2600–2400 BCE

Terracotta statuette of a goat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–500 BCE

Terracotta statuette of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Terracotta disk with Aphrodite riding on a swan
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE
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. 202 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. 3970766 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 03:00 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.