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. 17 shown for “String of 12 elongated disc beads” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 05:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
String of 12 elongated disc beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE

String of beads
Unidentified · 1800-1968

String of 12 Beads
Artist not stated in the record · 1st millennium CE

String of large coral beads
Unidentified · 1800-1968

Beads from Necklaces
Artist not stated in the record · 500–600

Woodcarving of a slave trader with enslaved female figure
Unidentified · 19th century

String of 12 Eye Beads
Artist not stated in the record · 600–200 BCE

Necklace
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

String of 12 Eye Beads
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–3rd century BCE
Gilt Demitasse Spoon, Part of Set of Ten
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1880

String of Beads
Artist not stated in the record · probably 8th–12th century

String of 12 Eyed Beads
Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th–late 8th century BCE

String of Beads
Artist not stated in the record · probably 8th–12th century

String of Beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

String of beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1640 B.C.

String of beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1640 B.C.

String of Beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
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. 292 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. 3143475 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 05:43 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.