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. 24 shown for “Terracotta statuette of an enthroned goddess between two attendants” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:37 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 an enthroned goddess between two attendants
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Allegorical subject
Domenico Mondo, Italian, 1723 - 1806 · before 1800

Goddess who bestows riches, probably Sri Lakshmi
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Design for Bedroom Furniture
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Amasis Painter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Festive Court Scene and Scene of an Execution of a Grand Vizir
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Romulus and Remus, Thirteen Paintings for the Sala delle Origini di Roma, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1803

Terracotta statuette
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE

VENUS OU LA COQUETTERIE
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

Enthroned Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

The Nativity (Adoration of the Shepherds) from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified
Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70

Design for the Decorations of Three Pilaster Strips
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Bronze statuette of Cybele on a cart drawn by lions
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 2nd century CE

Mount
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 575–550 BCE

Design for an Altar
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1750

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Title Page
Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690 · 1660

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Eretria Painter · ca. 420 BCE

Title Page
Thobie Tourneur, Le Thuraine, French, active ca. 1630 – ca. 1690 · 1660

Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 1701–50
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. 94 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. 2940687 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 2026-08-27 08:37 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.