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. 24 shown for “Collar with medallions containing coins of emperors” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Collar with medallions containing coins of emperors
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 225 CE

Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Girdle with Coins and Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 583, reassembled after discovery

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

Coin cabinet
Charles Percier · ca. 1809–19

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

Pectoral with Coins and Pseudo-Medallion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 539–50

Emperor Napoleon III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Gold aurei of the Twelve Caesars
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 46 BCE–96 CE

Collar
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Christening gown
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

Gold Bracteate
Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

Collar
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Ivory portrait head of the emperor Augustus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

The Landing of the Fathers at Plymouth
Enoch Wood, English, 1759 - 1840 · 1820

Beaker with figure and Spondylus shell
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

"Medallion" Pattern Sifting Spoon
Ball, Black & Co. · ca. 1865

Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Design for the Embroidery of the Right Top Part of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Collar
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 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. 62 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. 2903289 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 03:44 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.