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 “Sardonyx cameo of Aurora in a chariot” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:52 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.

Sardonyx cameo of Aurora in a chariot
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator
Artist not stated in the record · late 1000s–1100s (cameo); 1100s–1300s (mount)

Bona Sforza (1493–1557), Queen of Poland
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio · cameo ca. 1530–40, frame 19th century

Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 41–54 CE

Sardonyx cameo of Aurora driving her chariot
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Sardonyx cameo of Aurora driving her chariot
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Disk Brooch with Cameo
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600 (mount); 100–300 (cameo)

Nessus Abducting Dejanira
Giuseppe Girometti · ca. 1815–25

Sardonyx cameo with Dionysus and Ariadne
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Sardonyx cameo of a double capricorn with a portrait of the emperor Augustus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Cameo with Hercules and the Nemean Lion within a Garland
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–40

Sardonyx cameo
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–3rd century 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. 100 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 2026-08-27 05:52 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.