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. 22 shown for “Pair of boat-shaped earrings with filigree and granule decoration” — 54 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 04:09 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 boat-shaped earrings with filigree and granule decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Disk Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · second half 7th century

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

Boat-shaped earrings with filigree and granule decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

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

Basket-Shaped Dessert Dish with Boat Scene
John Ridgway, English, ca. 1785 – 1860 · ca. 1835

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

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)
Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 1750

Bird-Shaped Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · second half 6th century
Micro-mosaic
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

Bird-Shaped Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · second half 6th century

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)
Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 1750

Gold boat-shaped earrings
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

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

Disk Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

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

Armlet
Artist not stated in the record · first half 11th century

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

Boat-shaped earrings with filagree and granule decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Micro-mosaic
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825
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. 239 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. 30 matched · 30 examined · 14 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 2026-09-07 04:09 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.