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 “Eye Bead” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:19 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 eye bead
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Glass eye bead
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Eye-bead, with a horizontal bore
Artist not stated in the record · 305-30 BCE

Glass eye bead
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore
Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

Glass eye bead
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Eye-bead, with a horizontal bore
Artist not stated in the record · 305-30 BCE

Glass compound eye bead
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Eye-bead, with a lateral bore; the eyelet broken off
Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

Glass eye beads
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–4th century BCE

Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore
Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

Glass eye beads
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–4th century BCE

Eye-bead pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1196 BCE

Bead
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Eye-bead, with an eyelet
Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

Eye Bead
Artist not stated in the record · 4th or 3rd century BCE

Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore
Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

Glass eye bead
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–4th century BCE

Eye-bead pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1196 BCE

Glass eye bead
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–7th century CE

Eye-bead, with a lateral bore
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Glass eye bead
Artist not stated in the record

Eye-bead
Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1196 BCE
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. 361 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 39250 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 09:19 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.