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 “Neck Ring” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 21:08 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gold Neck Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–4th century BCE

Neck Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 500–300 BCE

Neck Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 400–300 BC

Gold Neck Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century

Neck Ring (Torque)
Artist not stated in the record · 600 BCE

Silver Neck Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 475–400 BCE

Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Neck ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–4th century CE

Necklace or neck ring
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century B.C–2nd century CE

Pectoral with Coins and Pseudo-Medallion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 539–50

Amethyst ring stone
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Carnelian ring stone
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE
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. 435 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. 16989 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 21:08 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.