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 “Amber ring” — 56 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 06:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Amber ring
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st–mid-2nd century CE

Necklace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Beaded Necklace
Artist not stated in the record · 500–600

Turtleback Tile Chandelier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

Miniature amber amphora (jar)
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Open-Ring Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · early 800s

Birdcage
Artist not stated in the record · 1735–96 and 1880–1910

Glass finger ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Fork with Amber and Bone Figural Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Glass ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE

Amber Collection
Artist not stated in the record

Pendant, One of a Pair
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Amber Collection
Artist not stated in the record

Pendant, One of a Pair
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Amber Collection
Artist not stated in the record

Goa Stone and Gold Case
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Amber Collection
Artist not stated in the record

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Amber Collection
Artist not stated in the record

Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Amber Collection
Artist not stated in the record

Amber Collection
Artist not stated in the record
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 9942 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-29 06:13 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.