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 “Disk (bi) with raised curls, fragment” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Disk (bi) with raised curls, fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 475 BCE-9 CE

Tile with seated Tatenen (or Ptah-Tatenen)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid and masks, reworked
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-9 CE

Crowned Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–early 4th century

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid
Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

Head of Tutankhamun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid
Artist not stated in the record · 1736-1795

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

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls
Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Disk (bi) with raised linked curls
Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

Fragment of Stela depicting a figure labeled 'excellent spirit of Re' facing Ramesses I and Ahmose-Nefertari beneath the barque of Re
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid
Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

Battle at Rokuhara, from The Tale of the Heiji Rebellion
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 14th century

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls
Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid
Artist not stated in the record · 475-100 BCE

Christ Blessing
Gerard David · ca. 1500–1505

Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid
Artist not stated in the record · 475 BCE-9 CE

Animal pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Disk (bi) with raised pyramids arranged in a grid, fragment, redecorated
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · 1480–89

Disk (bi) with raised hexagons arranged in a grid and birds, reworked
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 287918 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-05 07:56 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.