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. 24 shown for “Pair of eyes” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:09 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 eyes
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE or later

World War I enlisted man's olive drab tunic
Artist not stated in the record · 1914-1918

Bronze statuette of an artisan with silver eyes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-1st century BCE

Short sleeve purple knit dress
Unidentified · 1950s-1960s

Coffin of Wah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Beaded orange velvet evening top and skirt
Unidentified · 1965-1980

Pair of Candelabra
Tiffany & Co. · 1884

Black silk dress with pink and blue flowers
Unidentified · 1950s

Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Gold sequined dress with matching hat and purse
Unidentified · 1980s

Seated satyr with silvered eyes
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · second quarter of the 16th century

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · Ming dynasty, 1368–1644

Pair of Minbar Doors
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–30

Shackles
Unidentified · 18th - early 19th century

Vaikuntha Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

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

Leslie Payne’s Aviator Goggles
Leslie J. Payne · Mid-20th century

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Ocean View
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Rank badge (buzi)
Artist not stated in the record · Ming dynasty 1368–1644

Étagère
Alexander Roux · ca. 1855

Set of wrought iron leg shackles
Unidentified · before 1863
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. 14591 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2860705 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 12:09 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.