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 with a frieze of gazelles” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:37 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 with a frieze of gazelles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 1st millennium BCE

Cup
Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory, Austrian, active 1719 – 1864 · ca. 1730–1740

Frieze and ceiling
Virgilio Tojetti · 1881–82

ECUELLE ET GOBELETS
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Headband with Heads of Gazelles and a Stag Between Stars or Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1648–1540 B.C.

Design for a Chalice
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th–late 17th century

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Design for a Sofa
Brothers Santi, Rome, Italy · 1800–20

Glass gladiator cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE

SAUCIERES ET GOBLETS
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Cup
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Design for a Buffet
Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710

Cup
Tiffany & Co. · ca. 1893

A Satyr Drinking Surrounded by Children
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1655–82

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

Molding and Ornamentation
Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Sidewall
W. Campbell & Co. · 1890–1900

Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 500–200 BCE

Design for the North Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1755

Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 500–200 BCE

Two Frieze Designs
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1657–82

Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 500–200 BCE

Designs for Nine Bands for Bases
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
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. 15620 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. 3878832 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-27 08:37 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.