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. 12 shown for “Pendant with a Youth Playing a Lyre and Riding an Elephant” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Pendant with a Youth Playing a Lyre and Riding an Elephant
Artist not stated in the record · probably second half 19th century

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany
Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1680–82

Jizō Bosatsu Playing a Flute
Kano Tan'yū · mid-17th century

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Splanchnopt Painter · ca. 460–450 BCE

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Bronze and iron fittings from a cart or chariot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Springtime
Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873

Pair of gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE

Gold strap necklace with seedlike pendants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE

Broken Eggs
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1756
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. 46 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 10:49 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.