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 “Inlay / bead blank with face” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Inlay / bead blank with face
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · 1595–1615

Inlay / bead blank with face
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · 1596–1615

Inlay / bead blank with face
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Photographic postcard portrait of a woman standing with a chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1907-1909

Inlay / bead blank with face
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Cream silk dupioni dress and jacket with embellishments
Seaton Enterprises Ltd. · 1960s

Inlay/bead blank with face
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Tsuba
Kawaji Tomotomi, Japanese, 1754 · early 18th century

Inlay / bead blank, floral design
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Doorway Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

Inlay / bead blank, section of circular floral cane
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80

Bead with face canes
Artist not stated in the record · 30 BCE–364 CE

Clock or Barometer Wall Mount Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788
Case (Inrō) with Design of Hotei (Putai) Carrying a Small Boy (obverse); Boy Carrying Gourd-Flask (reverse)
Tokoku Fuzui · late 19th century

Clock or Barometer Wall Mount Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Bat / Hathor emblem from a sistrum
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Side chair
John Hewitt, American, 1777–1857 · ca. 1820

Beaker with heads and toads
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Blue velveteen jacket with embellishments and matching belt
Unidentified · late 20th century

Beaker with heads and toads
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Button
Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 26 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. 537 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-03 09:16 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.