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 hoop with glass pendant in the form of a youthful head” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock
James Cox · 1766

Locket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1866

Gold hoop with glass pendant in the form of a youthful head
Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–1st century BCE

Button
Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796 · late 18th century

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Pendant Design
Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581 · 1582

Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée)
Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1761

Pendant Design
Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581 · 1582

Sallet in the Shape of a Lion's Head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Venus and Cupids
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Set of jewelry
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Vase (vase chinois) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1791

Brooch in the form of a pansy
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1900

Vase (vase gothique Fragonard) (one of a pair)
Alexandre Evariste Fragonard · manufactured 1832, decorated 1844

Design for an Oil-burning Pendant Lamp
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

Cupids
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Magnifying Glass
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Head of a Turbaned Youth
Artist not stated in the record · 1730–40
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. 514 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. 7484752 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-06 15:13 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.