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. 20 shown for “Filigree Shoe” — 48 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Disk Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · second half 7th century

Filigree Shoe
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Disk Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Boot
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Bird-Shaped Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · second half 6th century

Shoe, inscribed "Souvenir de Wiesbade"
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Bird-Shaped Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · second half 6th century

Worn Shoe Sole
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Disk Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century (?)

Boot with Spur
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Disk Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 650–725

Bracelet, comb and earrings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1270–1300

Manicure set
Artist not stated in the record · probably 19th century

Disk Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · mid-600s

Filigree Work
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Necklace
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Baby Rattle
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Mameluke sword presented to Capt. George Garrison by the 55th Massachusetts
Artist not stated in the record · 1863

Bouquet holder, filigree, cornucopia
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4382 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-02 22:18 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.