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 “Box-form ornament with granulation and filagree” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 05:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Box-form ornament with granulation and filagree
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–4th century BCE

Caduceus-form
Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815 · ca. 1875

Box-form ornament with granulation
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–4th century BCE

Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Boat-shaped earrings with filagree and granule decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Ornament Designs for Case Covers, Roundels, and Bands
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

Ornamental Spring-loaded Cherry Pitter
François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890 · ca. 1890

Boat-shaped earrings with filigree and granule decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Bouquet holder, scroll and leaf motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Bead
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3300-2250 BCE

Pair of boat-shaped earrings with filigree and granule decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Bead
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3300-2250 BCE

Bouquet holder, filigree with twisted handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Earring with granulation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200–30 BCE

Tapered pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3300-2250 BCE

One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Bouquet holder, butterfly motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1869

Gold serpentine fibula (safety pin) with animals in granulation
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century BCE

Bouquet holder, flower motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Wedjat eye with granulation and decorative wire ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Button
Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 296 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. 127 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-07 05:36 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.