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. 15 shown for “Decorated Jug with Feline-Head Handle naming Atumemtaneb” — 21 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:39 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 with Feline-Head Handle naming Atumemtaneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Milk Jug
Wallendorf Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1764 · ca. 1800

Brazier of Rasulid Sultan al-Malik al-Muzaffar Shams al-Din Yusuf ibn 'Umar
Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th century

Covered Milk Jug
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · 1780–1800

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

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

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with twisted handles
Lykaon Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Milk jug (pot à lait à trois pieds) (part of a service)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1767

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Seal Ring with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Ceremonial Handle (?)
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Tray (plateau Duplessis) (part of a service)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1767

Cup and saucer (goblet Hebert et soucoupe) (part of a service)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1767

Teapot (théière calabre) (part of a service)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1767

Sugar bowl (pot à sucre Hebert) (part of a service)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1767
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 12:39 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.