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 “Seal with Knob in the Shape of a Turtle” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Seal with Knob in the Shape of a Turtle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century

Writing kit
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Seal with Knob in the Shape of a Turtle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century

Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London
I N · 1675/76

Five chalices
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

Helmet with Aventail
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century

George III sterling silver tea pot
Artist not stated in the record · 1800

Dish in the shape of a leaf
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

Wooden mallet
Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th-mid 20th century

Seal
Jacob Boelen · ca. 1704

Goblet Commemorating François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–93) and his wife Everdina Petronella (1730–94), countess of Hogendorp
Artist not stated in the record · 1761–1765

Seal
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Teapot with Allegorical Scenes of "Africa" and "America"
Höchst Ceramics Manufactory, German, 1746 - 1796 · ca. 1765

Seal
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

Design for a Silver Coffee Urn
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1820–35

Turban Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Knob with Escutcheon and Lock Mechanism
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Seal with knob in the shape of a wheel
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1424

Sad iron owned by members of the Ellis family
Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Pennsylvania, American · after 1870

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Cream jug and cover with tray
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Turban Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century

Grand Army of the Republic medal owned by Marquis Peterson
Artist not stated in the record · 1866-1896
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. 14968 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. 7483554 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-28 03:46 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.