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. 23 shown for “String of 46 round beads in graded sizes” — 60 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:02 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 46 round beads in graded sizes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1504 B.C.

Venetian glass trade beads
Unidentified · ca. 16th or 17th century

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Venetian glass trade beads
Unidentified · 18th to 20th century

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Venetian glass trade beads
Unidentified · ca. 16th or 17th century

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Venetian glass trade beads
Unidentified · ca. 16th or 17th century

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Venetian glass trade beads
Unidentified · ca. 16th or 17th century

Necklace with conical beads
Moche artist(s) · 200-850 CE
Black and white striped pants worn by Verdine White of Earth Wind & Fire
Louis Wells, born 1957 · 2004-2013

Column with Hathor-emblem capital and names of Nectanebo I on the shaft
Artist not stated in the record · 380–362 BCE

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo
Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

String of glass millefiori beads
Unidentified · 1800-1968

Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

String of large coral beads
Unidentified · 1800-1968

Standing cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1530

Light taupe dress with beaded embellishments
Unidentified · ca.1965

Head from a Figure with a Beaded Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Basket with Decorative Beading
Ira Blount · late 20th-early 21st Century

Crucifix
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
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. 20 matched · 20 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. 7483611 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 11:02 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.