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. 21 shown for “Belt Plaque with Confronted Rams” — 51 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Belt Plaque with Confronted Rams
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Plaque
Herman Mueller, German, 1854–1941 · 1887–93

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Designs for Fountains
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Belt Plaque with Confronted Bovines
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

The Lion Strangler
Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-12th century

Belt Plaque with Feline and Ram
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Plaque for Vietnam War service presented to Major Colin L. Powell
1st Infantry Regiment · September 1969

Pair of Flintlock Pistols
Alexander Campbell · ca. 1750–70

Designs for Three Pedestals
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770–80

Belt buckle with paired felines attacking ibexes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–2nd century BCE

A pair of belt plaques
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

Furniture plaque carved in relief with winged figures, locust, and monkey
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Furniture plaque carved in high relief with two Egyptianizing figures flanking a volute tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Towel fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Scottish Type Presented to Jeffrey, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797)
John Murdoch · ca. 1780

Belt plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

Belt plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

Designs for Twelve Earrings
Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century · 1865–70

Two Knights in Armor Confronting a Crocodile and a Boar
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260558 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 08:33 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.