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 elongated body” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:45 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 earring with elongated body
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

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

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

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

Gold crescent-shaped earring
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE–1st century CE

Vase
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1898

Silver earring with nail-head pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Gold and enamel a baule earring
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Pair of Potpourri Vases
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Pair of gold earrings with dolphins' heads with emerald, glass, and gold beads
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Vase
Jacques Sicard, French, 1865–1923 · ca. 1902

Lady with silver basket
Giuseppe Gori · second half 18th century

Vase
Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · ca. 1881

Earring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2500 BCE

Vase
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1880–82

Earring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2500 BCE

Vase
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1880–82

Pair of gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE

Shoe, inscribed "Souvenir de Wiesbade"
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Pair of Penannular Earrings (with 16.10.474)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1458 BCE
Chrysanthemum Pattern Salt Spoon
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Pair of Spiral Earrings (with 16.10.467)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1458 BCE

Chrysanthemum Pattern Mustard Spoon
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880
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. 107 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 407881 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 2026-09-02 05:45 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.