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 “Hand bell” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 03:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 13th–14th century

A Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–35

Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 11th–12th century

A Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–35

Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 13th–14th century

Elevation of a Tray with Two Tankards and a Hand Bell
Vincenzo Belli, Italian, 1710 - 1787 · 1830–1860

Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 10th–11th century

Project: A Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 13th–14th century

Hand bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1572

Jo, La Belle Irlandaise
Gustave Courbet · 1865–66

Design for a Hand Bell in Neo-Renaissance Style
Artist not stated in the record · 1825

Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

L'Ouie
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Walking, carrying 50 lb. dumb bell in right hand
Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886

Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Sketches
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

Bell (Ekure)
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th–mid 19th century

Fishermen Beaching a Dory
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · October 10, 1900
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. 732 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 42627 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-04 03:22 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.