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. 20 shown for “Openwork Copper Bead with Bird Design” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 02:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Openwork Copper Bead with Bird Design
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–15th century

Fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550
Openwork Copper Bead with Bird Design
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–15th century

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

Tsuba
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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

Kin-chaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Chrysanthemum crane
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Openwork Copper Bead with Bird Design
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–15th century

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

Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Processional cross
Ethiopian Orthodox · 14th-15th century

Center table
Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia · ca. 1780–85

Necklace
Artist not stated in the record · probably 19th century

Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy
Paullus Schiller · ca. 1620–30

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

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

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

Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial
Jan Jansen Bockeltz · ca. 1605–10

Button
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–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. 515 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. 902706 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-02 02:24 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.