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 “Glass pendant in the form of a bull’s head” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 13:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Glass pendant in the form of a bull’s head
Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–1st century BCE

Glass pendant in the form of a bull’s head
Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–1st century BCE

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock
James Cox · 1766

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Mechanical table
Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories
Wogdon & Barton · 1801–3

Mechanical table (Table mécanique)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1778

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Miniature collector's cabinet
Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600
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. 6868 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 13:15 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.