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 “Five Earrings” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 21:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Five Earrings and a Bead
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Studies of five ears, noses and a mouth
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Five gold earrings with spherical elements
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Five Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–30

Electrum earring with lobes and rosettes
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Design for an Earring
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Pair of earrings
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–75

Earring
Artist not stated in the record · mid-1st century

Design for an Earring
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century A.D

Design for an Earring
Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1755

Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · first half 11th century

Design for a Jewel Box with Earrings, a Pearl Necklace, and a Bracelet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Earring, One of a Set of Five
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Five of Diamonds
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Design for an Earring
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Earring, One of a Set of Five
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Cupids
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Earring, One of a Set of Five
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Design for an Earring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Rosette
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
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. 64 matched · 24 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. 153524 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-06 21:42 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.