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. 20 shown for “Bottle with Three Lugs” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:27 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 Three Lugs
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th century

Case with three small bottles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

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

Snuff bottle and stopper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690, decorated ca. 1730

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

Miniature bottle with cover
David Clayton · 18th century

Cruet Stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Miniature bottle with cover
David Clayton · 1720–23

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Glass bottle with three feet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century CE

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Miniature caster with cover
David Clayton · 1720–23

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Bottle
Central Highlands artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Miniature caster with cover
David Clayton · 1720–23

Miniature caster with cover
David Clayton · 1720–23

Stirrup-spout bottle with feline
Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE

Glass hexagonal bottle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 25–50 CE
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. 307 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 269587 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 02:27 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.