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 “Covered urn with geometric decoration” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:05 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 urn with geometric decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Pair of Urns
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

Covered urn with geometric decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Urn with Gold and Flower Pattern
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1795

Reconstruction of Geometric Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Urn
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 700 BCE

Black Basalt Covered Urn
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1780–1800

Urn
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1831–35

Coffeepot with Urn Pattern
Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747 · 1780–1800

Urn
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1831–35

Teapot with Urn Pattern
Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747 · 1780–1800

Terracotta stamnoid cinerary urn with lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 650–600 BCE

Pair of Covered Urns
Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · 1740–1750

Covered sugar bowl
William W. Gilbert · 1790–1800

Tea Urn in the Shape of Atlas Supporting the World
Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801 · 1777

Glass bowl decorated with geometric patterns
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Bed cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Hexagonal Jar (Rokkaku-tsubo) with Paulownia and Geometric Design
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Sugarbowl and cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Container with Spiral Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Jug
Samuel Wood, British, 1704 – 1794 · 1781
Covered Urn
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Elevation and Plan for a Side Table with Covered Dishes, Urns and Cup
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1780
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. 532 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 290728 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 16:05 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.