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. 12 shown for “Figure-Celt Pendant” — 13 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 09:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Figure-Celt Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–5th century

Figure-celt pendant
Greater Nicoya or Central region artitst(s) · 1–700 CE

Figure-Celt Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–5th century

Figure-celt Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–6th century

Celt pendant
Greater Nicoya or Central region artitst(s) · 1–500 CE

Celt pendant
Greater Nicoya or Central region artitst(s) · 1–500 CE

Celt pendant
Greater Nicoya or Central region artitst(s) · 1–500 CE

Modified celt-pendant with incised motifs
Olmec artist(s) · 900–600 BCE
Ornament with Maya glyph
Maya and Atlantic Watershed artists · 200–600 CE, reworked after 600 CE

Column
Maya artist(s) · 800–900 CE

Pair of carved ornaments with the Maize God
Maya artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Watch
Pierre Vernede · ca. 1650
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. 13 matched · 13 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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 09:10 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.