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 earring with winged figure” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:27 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 earring with winged figure
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd‒2nd century BCE

Siren Earrings
Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815 · ca. 1870

Gold earring with winged figure
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd‒2nd century BCE

Embroidered picture
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Figure of a Dog
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1741

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Gold earring with winged figure
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd‒2nd century BCE

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Gold earring with winged figure
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd‒2nd century BCE

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Orphrey
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th or early 17th century

Gold earring with winged figure (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Gold earring with winged figure (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Study for "The Crescent Moon"
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1897

Ear ornament with winged runner
Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Ear ornament with winged runner
Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Study of Pendentive Figure for Electricity, Dome of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL
J. Carroll Beckwith, American, 1852–1917 · 1891–92

Earrings with Assyrian human-headed winged bulls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–1875

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 423 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. 438659 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 03:27 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.