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 “Decorated Jug of Neferkhawet” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Decorated Jug of Neferkhawet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–60

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · late 1200s–early 1300s

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

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Covered Milk Jug
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Untitled
Nathaniel Seymour · ca. 1790–1820

Cream jug and cover with tray
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1830

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Jug
Lambeth Factories · ca. 1647

Covered Milk Jug
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1780

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-16th century

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

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1602

Eglinton
W. Ridgway & Company, Hanley and Shelton, Staffordshire, England, active ca. 1830 - 1854 · 1840

Jug
Justus Alexander Ernst Glüer · ca. 1725

Apostles
Charles Meigh, English, active 1812 – 1861 · 1842

Jug
Bartholomäus Seuter · 1720

Jug and lid
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · ca. 1765

Jug Decorated with Dolphins and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1550 B.C.

Milk Jug
Wallendorf Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1764 · 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. 461 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. 2863111 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 09:20 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.