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. 19 shown for “Necklace with Repoussé Lotus Terminals” — 49 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Necklace with Repoussé Lotus Terminals
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–12th century

Chair
Duncan Phyfe, American, 1768–1854 · ca. 1840

Jewelry Elements for a Broad Collar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Miniature broad collar
Artist not stated in the record · 332–246 BCE

Side chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Broad Collar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Tea Caddy Spoon
Edward C. Moore (1827-1891) · late 19th century

Tear-shaped Elements
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Mug
Dominick and Haff, New York, New York, 1872 – 1928 · 1879
Elements
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Lobed bowl with lotus petals, birds, animals, and floral scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th-early 8th century

Tea Kettle and Stand
Dominick and Haff, New York, New York, 1872 – 1928 · 1881
Elements
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Knob with Escutcheon and Lock Mechanism
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Food mold
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Food mold
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1656

Hot Water Urn
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846

Food mold
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 256982 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-27 15:34 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.