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. 10 shown for “Terracotta woman baking bread” — 47 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:05 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 woman baking bread
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600–480 BCE

Women Baking Bread
Carl Moon, born Wilmington, OH 1879-died San Francisco, CA 1948 · ca. 1937-1943

Terracotta pelike (jar)
Somzée Painter · ca. 420–410 BCE

Baking Bread
José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican, Aguascalientes, Mexico 1852-died Mexico City, Mexico 1913 · published 1947

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: North Wall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE
Bread-slicing Machine
Micro Machine Company · 1928

Column Surround with Pensive Woman
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

"Yeast" self-titled item of ephemera
Artist not stated in the record · March 13, 1935

Nursing woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2420–2389 BCE or later

Kitchen Towel, Saturday, Baking
Artist not stated in the record · 1943
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 38651 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 22:05 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.