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 “Relief of a woman with a hairpin - see 26.3.353-5” — 40 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Black hairpin used as a self-defense weapon during protest marches
Unidentified · ca. 1969

Blue hairpin used as a self-defense weapon during protest marches
Unidentified · ca. 1969

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)
Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

Femme dressée sur un piédestal orné de bas-reliefs (Woman Standing on a Pedestal Decorated with Bas-Reliefs)
Artist not stated in the record · 1768, published 1770

Designs for a Capital, Sarcophagus, and Relief
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · ca. 1840

Design for a Decorative Hairpin
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Tusk
Kongo artist · ca. 1860

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Radiator
Stratton & Seymour, New York, New York, USA,1837–1842 · mid-19th century

Designs for Three Pedestals
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770–80
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3880636 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-02 13:28 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.