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. 16 shown for “Bead Plaque” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bead Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Arabesque Design
Michel, French, active 18th century · 1780-1784

Bead Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Button
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1790

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Voodoo Guitar "Marie" made by Don Moser with debris from Hurricane Katrina
Don Moser, American · 2005

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Royal Jewel Cabinet with Sèvres Plaques
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1825–1826

Bead Plaque of Ramesses II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
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Plaque Bead with name of Amenhotep I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Plaque Bead with Name of Thutmose IV and a Sphinx on the Reverse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Plaque Bead with the Name of Amenhotep I, Head of Hathor on the Reverse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Plaque with Saint Peter
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1185–1200

Plaque with Saint Peter in Glory
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1185–1200

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–7th century BCE

Amuletic plaque of Paser, the Vizier of Seti I and Ramesses II
Paser · ca. 1300–1200 BCE
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. 121 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 34060 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:18 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.