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. 16 shown for “Deer-shaped ornament” — 33 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Yoke Ornament Shaped as Recumbent Deer
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Deer-shaped ornament (fragment)
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

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

Deer-shaped ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

Double animal-head bell
Chiriquí artist(s) · 1000 - 1600 CE

Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616 · 1616–1623

Yoke ornament in the shape of a deer
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Yoke ornament in the shape of a deer
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Glass ornaments with recumbent deer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1370–1200 BCE

Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s

Saddle, Saddle Pad, Stirrups, Rein, Stirrup Straps, Bit and Bridle, Breaststrap, Tassel, and Crupper
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Hunting Sword with Scabbard, Knife, and Fork
Artist not stated in the record · blade dated 1656

Plate with trumpeter
Maya artist(s) · 700–800 CE

Diana and the Stag
Joachim Friess · ca. 1620

Bottle in the shape of a dog
Nasca artist(s) · 1–600 CE
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. 38 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 01:47 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.