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 boat-shaped earring with a sphinx” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:48 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 boat-shaped earring with a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 375–350 BCE

Sword Hilt with Fishing Boats and Water Birds
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860–80

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

Micro-mosaic
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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

Micro-mosaic
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

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

Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

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

Basket-Shaped Dessert Dish with Boat Scene
John Ridgway, English, ca. 1785 – 1860 · ca. 1835

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

Gold sequined dress with matching hat and purse
Unidentified · 1980s

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

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

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

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)
Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 1750

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

Pink turban headdress from Josephine Baker's performance troupe
Unidentified · ca. 1973

One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Leaf-Moulded Sauceboat
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1750–1760

Earring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1200 BCE

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)
Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 1750
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. 692 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. 43 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-02 05:48 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.