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 “Cuff Band with Bust of a Female” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cuff Band with Bust of a Female
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–9th century

Cream silk dress with metallic embroidery and front overskirt
Artist not stated in the record · 1980s

Terracotta bust of a female figure
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Brown bodice and skirt with green silk trim
Unidentified · ca.1895

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Quilted white blouse with beaded embellishment
Artist not stated in the record · 1980s - 1990s

Gold ring with a carnelian or glass intaglio
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Peach and gold sequin dress designed by Peter Davy
Peter Davy, Saint Vincentian, 1944 - 1990 · 1980s

Fertility goddess with floral band
Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Gloves
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

Bone pin head with female bust
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Coral collared dress with embellishments and detachable train
Mme. Berthe · 1930s-1950s

Reliquary Bust of a Female Saint
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–30

Purple velvet coat with fur collar and cuffs
Stewart & Company, American · 1920s-1930s

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Black pigeon breast bodice with cording applique
Unidentified · 1900s

Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure)
Okak-Fang artist · 19th century

Ivory wedding dress with bows and sequin floral decoration with detachable train
Bryan K. Osburn, American · 1993-1999

Poporo (lime container) with female figures
Quimbaya artist(s) · 1–600 CE

US Cavalry officer's uniform riding pants worn by John H. Alexander
John G. Haas, American · ca. 1890

America
Hiram Powers · 1850–54; carved after 1854

Undersleeves
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Francesco Bocchetta
Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · ca. 1565–90

Bands
Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 468 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 4242459 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-03 05:17 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.