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 “Stone votive relief of an ear with earring” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Stone votive relief of an ear with earring
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Earrings and Brooches
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–30

Earring
Artist not stated in the record · mid-1st century

Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Earring
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Eagle relief
Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Snuff bottle and stopper
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Relief with enthroned ruler
Chakalte' · 770 CE

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)
Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 1750

Stone votive relief of an eye
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Mirror with candle brackets
Artist not stated in the record · 1720–35

Funerary relief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Design for an Earring
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

Relief panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 883–859 BCE

Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Marble votive relief of a horseman
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Micro-mosaic
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

Marble fragment of a votive relief with Athena
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 405–390 BCE

Micro-mosaic
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

Marble votive relief fragment of goddesses, mother, nurse, and infant
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Design for an Earring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Eagle relief
Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)
Bow Porcelain Manufactory, English, active ca. 1744 – 1776 · ca. 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. 156 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3043996 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 2026-08-27 18:37 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.