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 “Part of a bronze handle with ram’s head finial” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 16:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–90

Part of a bronze handle with ram’s head finial
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Staircase Balustrade Design
Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776 · 1772–77

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

SUCRIERS DE SERVICE
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

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

Pair of Elephants Mounted as Candlesticks
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Commode (Secrétaire à abattant)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Epitaphe de marbre et bronze de Mr. le Baron de Bezenval (Epitaph in Marble and Bronze for Baron de Bezenval), plate 100, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Urn
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Jar and cover
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

Commode
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

Sword and Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 60 BCE

Design for a Cartel Clock
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1700–1715

Jewish Woman of Algiers
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Staircase Balustrade Design
Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776 · 1772–77

Staff finial with ram's head
Lower Niger Valley caster · 15th–19th century

Vase de marbre blanc à Trianon
François Girardon, French, 1628 – 1715 · 1744–56

Bronze diskos thrower
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 480–460 BCE

Finial in the form of a standing ram
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
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. 2158 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3903698 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-29 16:27 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.