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 “Project: A Hand Bell” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Project: A Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

Jo, La Belle Irlandaise
Gustave Courbet · 1865–66

A Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–35

Hercules and the Erymanthian boar
Giambologna · Late 17th or 18th century

A Hand Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–35

Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 750–950 CE

Left-handed baritone Mirafone
Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 20th century

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Project for the Tomb of the Maréchal de Belle-Isle
Augustin Pajou, 1730–1809 · 1761

Costume Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Elevation of a Tray with Two Tankards and a Hand Bell
Vincenzo Belli, Italian, 1710 - 1787 · 1830–1860

Bell (Ekure)
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th–mid 19th century

Design for a Hand Fan (Right Plate)
Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

Bell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th century BCE

Hand bell
Artist not stated in the record · 1572

Bell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th century BCE

Design for a Hand Bell in Neo-Renaissance Style
Artist not stated in the record · 1825

Bell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th century BCE

L'Ouie
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

Bell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th century BCE

Ambrotype of Ann Hurst Copeland in an embossed leather case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Bell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th century BCE

Fishermen Beaching a Dory
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · October 10, 1900
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. 1325 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. 2262308 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-04 05:33 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.