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. 17 shown for “Bronze jug” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bronze jug
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE or later

Bartmann jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Bronze jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–525 BCE

Purse (pence jug)
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–60

Bronze jug
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st–2nd century CE

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Bronze jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–early 5th century BCE

Plan et Elévation d’un Buffet de marbre avec ornements de bronze et dont le Tableau et plafond sont peints à Paris chez Monsieur le Normant
Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710

Bronze jug
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash
William Fountain, English · 1806

Bronze jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Bronze jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Bronze jug
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Bronze jug handle
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Bronze jug with handle attachment showing running youth
Artist not stated in the record · 450–400 BCE
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Bronze oinochoe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE
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. 128 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 11367 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 13:48 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.