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 “Gold Earring with Pearls and Sapphires” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Lovers in a Boat
Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · ca. 1880

Gold Earring with Pearls and Sapphires
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Necklace
Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · ca. 1890

Gold Earring with Pearls and Sapphires
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Necklace
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Crib of the Infant Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Pendant
Ernesto Pierret, French, b. 1824 · 1875–90

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

Guilloche Enamel Match Safe
August Wilhelm Holmström, Finnish, 1829 - 1903 · late 19th century

Miniature secretary incorporating a watch
James Cox · ca. 1766–72

Design for a Parure with Rubies and Pearls
Artist not stated in the record · Possibly 19th century

Saber with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · grip, 18th or 19th century; guard and scabbard, 19th century; blade, dated A.H. 1099/1688 CE; decoration on blade, 19th century

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

Rapier of Prince-Elector Christian II of Saxony (1583–1611)
Israel Schuech · dated 1606

Heart Ring
Florence Koehler, born Jackson, MI 1861-died Rome, Italy 1944 · ca. 1905-1935

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72

Design for an Earring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Earring
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century
Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Earring
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Portable desk
Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

Microscope
Claude-Siméon Passemant · ca. 1750

USS West Virginia Pearl Harbor Survivors hat worn by Ck2 George Francis Bland
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1991
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. 1644 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. 1652453 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 13:19 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.