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 “Bronze belt clasp” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bronze belt clasp
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 7th century BCE

Belt
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Clasp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200

Belt
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Belt clasp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Police Gazette Championship Belt and presentation case awarded to Ezzard Charles
Artist not stated in the record · 1948

Bronze belt and clasps
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–early 4th century BCE

American Defense Service Medal and ribbon bar awarded to George Francis Bland
Joseph A. Kiselewski, American, 1901 - 1988 · ca. 1941

Bronze belt clasp
Artist not stated in the record · second half of 7th century BCE

Mudcloth ensemble created by Twain's Twines
Twain's Twines, American, founded 1990 · 1990s

Bronze belt clasp
Artist not stated in the record · second half of 7th century BCE

Belt ornament (from a set of eight, F1916.474, 719-724, F1917.558)
Artist not stated in the record · 960-1127

Belt Clasp
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Belt ornament (from a set of eight, F1916.474, 719-724, F1917.558)
Artist not stated in the record · 960-1127

Sword and Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 60 BCE

Belt ornament (part of a group of ten: F1916.428-429, 726-730, 740, 743-744)
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-14th century

Sword and scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th century CE

Belt ornament (part of a group of ten: F1916.428-429, 726-730, 740, 743-744)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

Bronze hook from a belt
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–early 4th century BCE

Belt ornament (from a set of eight, F1916.474, 719-724, F1917.558)
Artist not stated in the record · 960-1127

Belt Carrier with Powder Flask and Pouch for Chargers
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Belt ornament (part of a group of ten: F1916.428-429, 726-730, 740, 743-744)
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-14th century

Bronze belt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–325 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. 358 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. 23855 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:34 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.