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 “Earrings with bull head terminal” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Earrings with bull head terminal
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Design for a Candlestick
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475–1564 · 1520–30

Earring with bull head terminal
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–mid 2nd century BCE

Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

Pair of gold, garnet, enamel, and glass earrings
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Knife Sharpener with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

Earring with head of a bull
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Spoon with Flower-form Terminal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Gold and copper alloy spiral earring with lion-griffin head terminal
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of the 4th century BCE

Skewer with Horse Head Terminal
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Gold earring with head of a bull
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Cheese Scoop
Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898 · 1885–86

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Berry Spoon
Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898 · 1885–86

Earrings with ibex head terminal
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

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

Earrings with ibex head terminal
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

Earring with head of a bull
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Table Spoon
Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898 · 1885–86
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. 119 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. 448234 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 12:25 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.