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 “Pair of Earrings with Snap-on Covers” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of Earrings with Snap-on Covers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1882–85

Casket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

White net dress and matching vest with ribbon applique
Unidentified · 1910s

Gold Earring
Artist not stated in the record · 400–500

Black leather tapered pants worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Artist not stated in the record · 2000 - 2010

Gold, garnet, and agate necklace and earrings
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Jewelry Designs
S.H. Dinglinger · 1751

Pair of gold, garnet, enamel, and glass earrings
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Bernard Johnson pants worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Bernard Johnson, American, 1936 - 1997 · 2000 - 2010

Pair of gold earrings with dolphins' heads with emerald, glass, and gold beads
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Purple velvet coat with fur collar and cuffs
Stewart & Company, American · 1920s-1930s

One of a Pair of Crescent-Shaped Earrings with Rosettes
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Micro-mosaic
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

Gold earrings with pendant vase and ring
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Micro-mosaic
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

Gold Earring
Artist not stated in the record · 400–500
Brooch and pair of earrings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

One of a Pair of Gold Earrings with Garnets
Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Creme floral printed cape
Unidentified · 1960s-1970s

One of a Pair of Crescent-Shaped Earrings with Rosettes
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

One of a Pair of Covered Confinement Cups
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

One of a Pair of Gold Earrings with Garnets
Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th 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. 1312 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. 1183 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-01 15:59 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.