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 “Hair ring” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hair ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE
John Frederick Kensett
Charles DeForest Fredricks, 11 Dec 1823 - 25 May 1894 · c. 1860

Hair ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE

John Cleves Short
Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · 19th century

Hair ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE

Abraham Bogardus
Abraham Bogardus, 29 Nov 1822 - 22 Mar 1908 · c. 1880

Chuspa (coca bag)
Moche artist(s) · 650-850 CE

Bret Harte
Jeremiah Gurney, 12 Oct 1812 - 21 Apr 1895 · c. 1870

Ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Charles Augustus May
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1847

Ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Gustav Cramer and George William Harris
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · c. 1908

Glass finger ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century CE

Winslow Homer (with six other artists, including E. L. Henry and Alfred C. Howland)
Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

Steatite scaraboid seal set in a gold swivel ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 6th–early 5th century BCE

Admiral George Dewey
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · c. 1905

Hair-ring
Artist not stated in the record · 1st millennium BCE (?)

John George Brown
Gilbert Gaul, 1855 - 1919 · 1907

Carnelian seal set in a gold ring
Artist not stated in the record · mid–6th century BCE

George H. Gilbert
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Wig rings of Sithathoryunet, on a modern wig
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1813 B.C.

Daniel Huntington
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Henry B. Anthony
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
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. 221 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 26110 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 16:36 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.