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. 18 shown for “Hook with Raptor-Headed Ungulate” — 47 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 17:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hook with Raptor-Headed Ungulate
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Heliotropium anomalum Hook. & Arn.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1985

Belt Hook in the Shape of an Ungulate
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Goniopteris jamesonii (Hook. f.) comb. nov., ined 2015
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 2003

Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Hall stand
Coalbrookdale Company, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England, founded 1709 · ca. 1875

Bottle with caiman
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1000–800 BCE

Sugar cane cutter
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Eagle transformation figure
Olmec artist(s) · 1000–400 BCE

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Vessel with mythical bird of prey
Olmec artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Orange Peeler
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Mount
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

La Cuisiassa
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Tetrazygia fadyenii Hook.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1986

Erigeron concinnus (Hook. & Arn.) Torr. & A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 2020

Gymnosiphon divaricatus (Benth.) Benth. & Hook. f.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1997

Trichomanes ankersii C. Parker ex Hook. & Grev.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 1997
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 140 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 2026-09-10 17:43 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.