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. 12 shown for “Inlaid Floral Ornament -- see 26.8.117a” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Inlaid Floral Ornament -- see 26.8.117a
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Belisarius and His Guide
Antoine Denis Chaudet · 1794

Girdle Clasp
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Brazier of Rasulid Sultan al-Malik al-Muzaffar Shams al-Din Yusuf ibn 'Umar
Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th century

Mortar and Pestle made for Abu Bakr 'Ali Malikzad al-Tabrizi
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Engraved Lamp Stand with a Cylindrical Body
Artist not stated in the record · probably late 16th or early 17th century

Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · dated 986 AH/1578–79 CE

Engraved Lamp Stand with Interlocking Circles
Artist not stated in the record · probably 16th century

Mount for Spear Shaft
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400

Bidri Box for Holding Pan
Artist not stated in the record · early–mid 17th century
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. 83 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 05:29 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.