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. 22 shown for “Gold armband with Herakles knot” — 50 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:22 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 armband with Herakles knot
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Mitre
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Gold fillet with a Herakles knot
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–3rd century BCE

Sleeve
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Gold and garnet strap diadem with Herakles knot
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

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

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

Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Pair of bracelets with rock crystal hoops and gold rams' heads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE

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

Silver mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Mounted Origami Crane with Gold Ribbon
Ira Blount · 2001

Bracelet with Agathodaimon, Isis-Tyche, Aphrodite, and Thermouthis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Bracelet with spirally twisted strands and a Herakles knot at the bezel
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Army mess dress blue jacket worn by Louis J. Beasley
Kenzar, Japanese · mid 20th Century

Tupu (pin)
Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1533 CE

Design for a Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Bracelet
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–75

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th 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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 270355 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 16:22 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.