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. 19 shown for “Bronze phallic ornament” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Ornament: butterfly
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

Bronze phallic ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Ornament: dragonfly (in fragments)
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

Bronze phallic ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

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

Bronze phallic ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

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

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Ornament: lotus leaf
Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

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

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)
Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Over-and-Under Flintlock Pocket Pistol of the Hughes of Gwerclas Family with Case and Accessories
Joseph Egg · ca. 1815–20

Commode
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70
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. 1566 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. 42835 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 20:17 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.