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. 23 shown for “A Hand Bell” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Natural Trumpet
Johann Wilhelm Haas · late 17th century

A Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–35

Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

A Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–35

Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Elevation of a Tray with Two Tankards and a Hand Bell
Vincenzo Belli, Italian, 1710 - 1787 · 1830–1860

Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Project: A Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–11th century

Design for a Hand Bell in Neo-Renaissance Style
Artist not stated in the record · 1825

Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 18th entury

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

The Whole Art of Marbling as Applied to Paper, Book Edges, etc.
Charles W. Woolnough · 1881

Sketches
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

Jo, La Belle Irlandaise
Gustave Courbet · 1865–66

Left-handed baritone Mirafone
Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 20th century

Natural Trumpet in D
Andreas Naeplaesnigg · 1790

Design for a Hand Fan (Right Plate)
Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

Figure of a Lion
John Bell · 1845–55

Hand bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1572

Hercules and the Erymanthian boar
Giambologna · Late 17th or 18th century

L'Ouie
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

Hand
Auguste Rodin · modeled possibly ca. 1886–89
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. 20665 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. 1779730 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 05:33 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.