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 “A Pitcher” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1430

Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

Pitcher
Willets Manufacturing Company · 1887–93

Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600

Pitcher
Tiffany & Co. · 1874–75

Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Pitcher
Tiffany & Co. · ca. 1880

Design for a Pitcher and Basin
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

Pitcher
Charles Cartlidge and Company · 1848–56

Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Pitcher
George E. Ohr · ca. 1898–1910

Design for an Urn, a Pitcher, Vases
Artist not stated in the record · 1620–40

Pitcher
Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1875–89

A Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600

Pitcher
Karl L. H. Müller · 1875

Sheet of a Drawing Book: Two Pitchers and Bowl
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1625–75

Pitcher
Dedham Pottery · 1896

ornament, christmas tree
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–99

Pitcher
Charles Cartlidge and Company · 1848–56

Sheet from a Sketchbook: The Triumph of Silenus; Sacrifice to Bacchus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1810

Pitcher
Charles Cartlidge and Company · ca. 1848–56

Design for a panel decoration showing a ewer, for a plate in the "Recueil d' Ornements"
Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · ca. 1775
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. 1278 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 1767393 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 16:10 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.