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. 23 shown for “Gold pendant ring with carnelian scaraboid” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:39 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 pendant ring with carnelian scaraboid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th–4th century BCE

Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

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

Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Carnelian scaraboid
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Miser's purse
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Pendant
Antonio Civilotti, 1798 - 1870 · ca. 1850

Gold ring with plain carnelian scaraboid
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Gold ring with a carnelian scaraboid gem
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Brooch in the form of a pansy
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1900
Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–11th century

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

Silver pendant with carnelian scarab
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Necklace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Gold earring with lotus flower pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Five Detail Designs for Pendants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Miser's purse
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–30

Gold swivel ring with carnelian scarab
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Designs for a Necklace and Four Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Gold swivel ring with carnelian scarab
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th 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. 213 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. 276854 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 15:39 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.