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. 23 shown for “Design for a Jar” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Design for a Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Jar
Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Design for a Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Untitled
Dave (later recorded as David Drake) · 1858

Design for a Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

Design for a Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Jar
Thomas W. Commeraw · 1796–1819

Design for Fountain with Canopic Jar
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Fruits à l'eau de Vie (Fruits in Plum Liquor) for the Services des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1200 BCE

Jar and cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–30

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 300 BCE–200 CE

Design for an Oil Lamp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Jar
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–550 CE

Design for the Embroidery of the Left Bottom Corner of a Man's Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1790

Side table (one of a pair)
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Project for a Ceiling
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830
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. 24078 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. 2098301 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-30 05:50 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.