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 Ware Jar Depicting Ungulates and Boats with Human Figures” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:01 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 Ware Jar Depicting Ungulates and Boats with Human Figures
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3500–3300 BCE

Le Printemps
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

Jar
Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Portique de treillage a la teste de l’isle du Dragon
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1670–95

Chasse of Champagnat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150

Jar with design of fence and grasses, Karatsu ware, E-Karatsu type
Artist not stated in the record · 1596-1615

Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)
New York Nessos Painter · second quarter of the 7th century BCE

LA PORTE ST. BERNARD
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1674–1703

Animal-Spouted Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Dish with the Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Base of a Footed Buff Ware Vessel
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–9th century

LE BASSIN DE L’ISLE D’AMOUR, où L’ISLE ROYALE
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1681–1703

Jar
Artist not stated in the record

Tobacco box
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Decorated ware jar with boats and human figures and falcon-styled lugs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3450–3300 BCE

Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Brighella on a pedestal
Meissen Manufactory · 1710–13

Karatsu ware tea ceremony water jar, E-Karatsu type
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th-early 17th century

Bowl with a Figure and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Earthenware Jar
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1877

Luster Jar with Hares (?) and Inscribed Words
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Jar with "octopus vinescroll" decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1865

Prisoner jar
Artist not stated in the record · 200–800 CE

Ship
Lazzaro Tavarone, Italian, 1556 - 1641 · ca. 1600
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. 71 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. 1543206 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 13:01 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.