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. 12 shown for “Terracotta statuette of a boy and a rooster” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 06:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Terracotta statuette of a boy and a rooster
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress
Artist not stated in the record · mid-late 1st century BCE

Rooster figurine
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Limestone statuette of a temple boy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–300 BCE

Seated boy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325–300 BCE

Terracotta statuette of a rooster
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE (?)

Terracotta statuette of a seated boy
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Pietà
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1864

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

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

Terracotta statuette of a boy
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd 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. 700 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 06:22 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.