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. 20 shown for “Stag pendant with bell feet” — 63 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Stag pendant with bell feet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE

Stag
Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875 · mid-19th century

Figure pendant
Greater Chiriquí artist · 700–1550 CE

Pendant in the form of a stag
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050-ca. 950 BCE

Bell Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 900–1520 CE

Pendant with Madonna
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Avian Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 900–1520 CE

Design for two pendants with boar's head and hanging bell
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Turtle Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 900–1520 CE

Urn
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

Belt clasp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Decorative panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Warrior Figure
Lower Niger Valley caster · 1455–1640

Baby Rattle with Bust of a Baby in a Nightcap
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

Brooch in the form of a stag
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd–early 4th century CE

Tea Urn in the Shape of Atlas Supporting the World
Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801 · 1777

Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial
Jan Jansen Bockeltz · ca. 1605–10

Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book
Baselyos, also known as "The Ground Hornbill Master" · late 17th century

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

The Interrupted Sleep
François Boucher · 1750
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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 8 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. 268957 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 00:24 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.