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. 22 shown for “Covered Jar, polychrome floral decoration, handle on cover in shape of squirrel.” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Covered Jar, polychrome floral decoration, handle on cover in shape of squirrel.
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Coffeepot with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1735

Teapot and cover
John Turner, Lane End, Staffordshire, England, 1759 - 1780 · ca. 1785
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Covered pitcher
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1861

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

Design for a Painted Porcelain Tureen and Tray
French National Porcelain Manufactury at Vincennes, 1738 – 1756 · ca. 1750

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Covered Jar (Albarello)
Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th–14th century

Covered Milk Jug
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770

Vase with cover
Longton Hall · ca. 1755–1757

Tureen and cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Animal-Spouted Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Écuelle
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1766

Elephant-Shaped Kendi
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 17th century

Bowl with cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–mid-19th century

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Jar and cover
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

Vase with cover (Vase en tour) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1763

Covered Creamer with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900

Covered Milk Jug
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · mid- 18th–late 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. 73 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. 7484732 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-08 06:25 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.