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. 19 shown for “Votive Fragment, Bust of Hathoritic Figure” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Votive Fragment, Bust of Hathoritic Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Votive Stele of Prince Lo-an
Unidentified (Chinese) · 1700-1900

Royal bust
Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Royal bust
Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

A Votive Image of a Boy Presented by his Parents to St. Nicholas of Bari
Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · late 18th century

Crowned Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–early 4th century

A Votive Offering
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1887

Bust of a priestly figure
Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

Fragment of relief plaque with a child god, inscribed on reverse
Artist not stated in the record · 500–200 BCE

Ginevra (fragment)
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · revised 1863

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

A Hypocrite and a Slanderer
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · ca. 1770–83

Bust of a royal figure with downward-hanging snake
Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Royal bust with atypical snake
Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Bronze portrait of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE
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. 120 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. 2876647 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 20:57 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.