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, green and gold handle” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories
James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Bouquet holder, green and gold handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories
Wogdon & Barton · 1801–3

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

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

Bouquet holder, beads, green handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Teapot
Artist not stated in the record · rock crystal ca. 1700, mounts ca. 1720

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

Medici vase with a scene of the park at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1811

Bouquet holder, feather vase, enamel handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Medici vase with a scene of the château at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1811

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

Tankard
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1725–30

Bouquet holder, jeweled, bone handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

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

Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair)
Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1758

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

Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair)
Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1758

Bouquet holder, fox, grapes, and basket motif
Henry Jenkins and Sons · ca. 1869-1880

Elephant-head vase (vase à tête d'éléphant)
Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1757

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

Wine pot in the shape of a peach (cadogan type)
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1725

Bouquet holder, enamel vase and handle
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. 129 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. 1541131 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 13:27 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.