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 “Bottle with Lotus Scroll” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bottle with Lotus Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Bottle with Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century

Side chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Textile
Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1875–1941 · late 19th century

Bottle
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1862

Vase
Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · 1680–1710

Ewer with Floral Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Vase
Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · ca. 1680–1710

Enameled and Gilded Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

snuff bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 1821–51

Bottle with lotus scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Scent Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bottle with lotus scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Gold and glass perfume bottle from Mae's Millinery Shop
Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994

Glass hunt-and-scroll bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Sofa
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Title Page and Goldsmith’s Designs for Boxes and Bottles
Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

Bowl with Incised Lotus Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century or later

Strainer
Caughley Porcelain Factory, English, 1755 - 1814 · ca. 1780

Bodhisattva Manjushri
Artist not stated in the record

Kang or furniture cover
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. 304 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 263688 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 11:45 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.