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 intaglio of a naked woman” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 14:02 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 intaglio of a naked woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–380 BCE

Tintype of a seated young woman
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1875

Finger ring with ancient intaglio
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 7th century CE

Ambrotype of a young woman holding a white baby
Artist not stated in the record · 1855-1860

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

Ambrotype of three women in dotted calico dresses
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1870

Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator
Artist not stated in the record · late 1000s–1100s (cameo); 1100s–1300s (mount)

White My Flax, Red My Ring, Gold the Heart of My Betrothed
Henry Patrick Raleigh, American, 1880–1944 · 1914

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

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

A Group of Women in a Landscape
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · after 1751

Gold ring with intaglio of seated woman and flying Eros
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

Tintype of a woman
Unidentified · 1856-1900

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

Ambrotype of a woman seated with a hat in her lap
Unidentified · mid-19th century

Gold ring with onyx intaglio
Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–early 3rd century CE

Watch and chatelaine
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Bronze ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century BCE

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

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

Ambrotype of an unidentified young woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Gold ring with intaglio of Kassandra
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–380 BCE

Ring, Cane Handles and Seal Designs
Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771
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. 124 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. 3883182 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 14:02 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.