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. 21 shown for “Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls” — 50 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Glass ornaments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1370–1200 BCE

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

"Bahram Gur Sees a Herd of Deer Mesmerized by Dilaram' s Music", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

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

Salvator Mundi
Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505

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

Vitellius tazza
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1587–99, foot added after mid-19th century

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

Canine vessel
South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600-900 CE

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

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

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

Haniwa (Clay Sculpture) of a Female Shrine Attendant
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

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

Earring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–4th century BCE

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

Panel with a youth grasping a tree; winged sun disc above
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

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

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

Disk (bi) with raised hexagons arranged in a grid and birds, reworked
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

Disk (bi) with raised pyramids arranged in a grid, fragment, redecorated
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 257705 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 06:17 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.