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 ring with carnelian intaglio: winged Nemesis” — 54 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 06:45 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 ring with carnelian intaglio: winged Nemesis
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–early 3rd century CE

Sharp DR 90 Nemesis
Nemesis Air Racing Team · 1991

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

Philippine Liberation Medal awarded to Ck2c George Francis Bland
Juan Nakpil, Filipino-American, 1899 - 1986 · ca. 1945

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Seal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

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

Border fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Carnelian oval set in a gold ring
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Interlaced circles
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Gold ring with a carnelian intaglio
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

World War I Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimage Medal issued to Mrs. Margaret A. Neal
Artist not stated in the record · 1930

Gold ring with carnelian intaglio portrait of Tiberius
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14–37 CE

Gold ring purse with clear beads
Unidentified · 1960s-1980s

Sardonyx ring stone
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

Ring, Cane Handles and Seal Designs
Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

Gold ring with a carnelian or glass intaglio
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Blazer, tie, and belt worn by Ted Corbitt for the 1952 Helsinki XV Olympics
Artist not stated in the record · 1952

Gold finger ring engraved with an image of Hermes
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Lidded incense burner (xianglu) with geometric decoration and narrative scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE
Scarab ring of Sithathoryunet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1813 B.C.

Ring
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Gold ring with carnelian intaglio: Eros with flaming torch
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Miser's purse
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–30
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. 14 matched · 14 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. 289941 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 2026-08-31 06:45 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.