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 “Cup decorated with ibexes” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cup decorated with ibexes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4000 BCE

Cup and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1735–1745

Cup and saucer with the Chinese story of Sima Guang
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

Cup and Saucer
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1787

Cup
Artist not stated in the record · cup 900–1100 CE; stem, base, and mounts ca. 1655–60
Coffee Cup
Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959 · 1966

Cup-Hilted Rapier
Carlo Piccinino · ca. 1650–75

Cup and Saucer with Swans
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · early 19th century

Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Cup and Saucer
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1800–1810

Blue-Painted Ibex Amphora from Malqata
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Cup and Saucer
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1779–1787

Cup with cover
Hans van Amsterdam · 1533/34

Egg cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Rangoon Cup and Saucer
Francis J. Emery, active ca. 1878 – 1893 · ca. 1878–85

Cup
Vienna · ca. 1740

Custard Cup (Pot à Crème)
Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · ca. 1770

Scarab Inscribed with a Crouching Ibex
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Cup and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1840–1850

Storage jar decorated with mountain goats
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4000–3600 BCE

Cup and Saucer
Limbach Porcelain Manufactory, German, 1762 - 1939 · ca. 1800

Cup
Meissen Manufactory · 18th century, decoration ca. 1720–25

Cup
Spode Ceramic Works, English, established 1776 · late 18th–early 19th 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. 985 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. 279405 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-03 17:20 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.