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. 23 shown for “Lover's Eye locket” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 03:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lover's Eye locket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Eye
Unidentified (British) · ca. 1800

Lover’s Eye Watch Fob
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Eye
Unidentified · ca. 1900

Lover's Eye Bracelet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Eye of a Lady
Unidentified (European) · ca. 1800

Lover's Eye ring
Artist not stated in the record · 1794

Eye Miniature on an Elliptical Ivory Box
Unidentified · ca. 1800

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Eye of a Lady
Unidentified (European) · ca. 1824

Locket Pendant, Possibly a Pomander, in Shape of Shell with Animal-Headed Cap Flanked by a Small Bird on Sides
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Eye of a Gentleman
Unidentified (European) · ca. 1824

Garden Gathering
Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Eye of a Lady
Unidentified (European) · ca. 1800

Lover's Eye necklace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840–60

Chatelaine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Lover's Eye bracelet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840–60

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Divan (Collected Works) of Jami
Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami · ca. 1480

Locket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Dog
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century
Gracilariopsis andersonii (Grunow) E.Y. Dawson
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1982

Locket with dictionary
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. 95 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 8053 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 03:57 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.