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. 17 shown for “Gold and garnet strap diadem with Herakles knot” — 45 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gold and garnet strap diadem with Herakles knot
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Bracelet
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–75

Gold cross-strap diadem with a Herakles knot set with five garnets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300–250 BCE

Design for a Diadem and Four Pins
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

Gold armband with Herakles knot
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Cowboy and Lasso
Shreve & Co., founded 1852 · ca. 1900

Ganymede jewelry
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE

Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Belt Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · 550–600

Leather bag with tools, whistles, and shells
Unidentified · 20th Century

Left gold heeled sandal with ankle strap
Unidentified · ca. 1975

Gold heeled sandals
Unidentified · 1970s-1980s

Pendant with Madonna
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Case
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Mitre
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Black purse with gold hardware and front flap
Dofan of France, French · 1950s - 1960s
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1527085 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 19:27 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.