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 “Comb Tops” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Comb Tops
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Rooster's Head
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Comb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Design for a Decorative Burgonet
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Comb top
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Hair Ornament and Jewelry Designs
Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

Comb top
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Hair Ornament and Jewelry Designs
Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

Comb
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Wood hair comb from Ghana
Unidentified · 1950s

Cosmetic Box with a Swivel Top
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Flower pot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Comb
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Design for a Decorative Burgonet
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Set of decorative belt plaques
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–early 8th century

Design for a Decorative Burgonet
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Burgonet with Buffe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1555–60

Design for a Decorative Burgonet
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Squash Window with Pebbles
Louis C. Tiffany · 1885–90

Comb Case with Wig and Lice Combs
Artist not stated in the record · 1671

Burgonet
Filippo Negroli · dated 1543

Bag for a travel hair care kit used by Anna Mae Queen Holmes
Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century

Dressing table
Artist not stated in the record · 1710–30

Comb
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. 69 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 66373 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-01 07:06 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.