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. 21 shown for “Openwork Barrel Bead” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term..jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Openwork Barrel Bead
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

Openwork bead
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Miser's purse
Artist not stated in the record · 1890–1910

Bead, openwork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Miser's purse
Artist not stated in the record · 1890–1910

Bead with openwork design
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Sweetmeat Basket with Divider
Artist not stated in the record · 1809–1819

Gold openwork hairnet with medallion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 200–150 BCE

Hot Water Urn
Auguste Le Sage, British, active London 1769 – 1780s · 1770–1771

Bead with openwork design
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Miser's purse
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–60

30 barrel beads in 2 rows
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

String of Barrel Beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Miser's purse
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–90

Necklace of barrel beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Bouquet holder, beaded openwork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

String of beads, barrel and one acacia
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1640 B.C.

Sweret Bead
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–1981 B.C.

Anklet, Reconstructed Using Claw Pendants and Barrel Beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1775 B.C.
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. 136 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 38254 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 22:11 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.