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. 17 shown for “Amulet in the Shape of a Heart” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Amulet in the Shape of a Heart
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Red straw hat with heart shaped brim
Frederick Jones, American, born 1948 · 1980s-1990s

Amulet in the Shape of a Heart
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Heart Shaped Cartouche
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

Lapis lazuli heart amulet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–334 BCE

Four of Hearts
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London
I N · 1675/76

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Dish in the shape of a leaf
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Amulet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1950–1850 B.C.

Amulet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Amulet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840–70

Turban Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Heart Scarab of Hatnefer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Heart of the Andes
Frederic Edwin Church · 1859

Turban Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century
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. 15386 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. 7483527 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 2026-08-27 03:27 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.