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 “Bouquet holder, flower motif” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Bouquet holder, flower motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Brush holder with flowers and poems
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bouquet holder, flower motif, mother of pearl handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Bouquet holder
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Bouquet holder, flower motif, paste stones
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Hanging Flower Holder (Hanaire) with Woman Holding a Flag
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660–70s

Bouquet holder, flower motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Bouquet holder
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bouquet holder, flower motif, curlicue handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Still Life with Flowers, a Snail and Insects
Joris Hoefnagel · 1589

Bouquet holder, flower motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890

Bouquet holder, flower motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Design for the Verso of a Pendant with a Vase at Center
Jan Collaert I · before 1573

Bouquet holder, flower motif with filigree
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

A Vase of Flowers
Margareta Haverman · 1716

Bouquet holder, flower motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase
Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

Bouquet holder, flower motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

A Vase with Flowers
Jacob Vosmaer · probably 1613

Bouquet holder, flower motif, mother of pearl
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Pipa (琵琶 )
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Bouquet holder, flower motif, cornucopia
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920
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. 48 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 31742 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 2026-09-02 13:25 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.