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 “Yoke ornament in the shape of a deer” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Yoke ornament in the shape of a deer
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616 · 1616–1623

Yoke ornament in the shape of a deer
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Deer-shaped ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

Ornament
Maya artist(s) · 3rd–9th century

Deer-shaped ornament (fragment)
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

Ornament
Maya artist(s) · 400–900 CE

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Mixed Studies near Mt. Hor, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1868

Yoke
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–15th century

Design for an Earring
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–50

Belt plaque in the shape of a kneeling horse
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Chest protector
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Frog yoke
Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 600-900 CE

Design for Brooch or Hair Ornament in Shape of Feather
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Closed yoke
Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Bandbox lid fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

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

Safety Valve, Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, R.H. Goddard
Dr. Robert H. Goddard · 1930s

Incense burner in the shape of a goose
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Red floral sleeveless qipao
Dynasty, Chinese, founded 1953 · ca. 1960
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. 2608 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. 7484582 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-05 03:14 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.