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. 13 shown for “Terracotta statuette of a man” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:26 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 a man
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Stag
Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875 · mid-19th century

Terracotta statuette of a man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750–600 BCE

Terracotta statuette of a man seated on a horse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–200 BCE

Terracotta statuette of a man holding a quadruped
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750–600 BCE

Terracotta statuette of a man, probably a warrior
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750–600 BCE

Terracotta statuette of a man riding a donkey
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600–480 BCE

Man
Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Terracotta krater
Hirschfeld Workshop · ca. 750–735 BCE

Terracotta group of a reclining youth, woman, and child
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

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

Bronze man and centaur
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750 BCE

Pietà
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1864
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. 1277 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. 3860419 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:26 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.