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 “Double Spout and Bridge Bottle with Bird Head” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Double Spout and Bridge Bottle with Bird Head
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–2nd century BCE

Teapot
Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory, German, established by 1753 · 1765–1770

Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal)
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

Portrait Head Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Designs for Two Ewers and a Swing-Handle Bowl
Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · mid- 16th century

Bottle with caiman
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1000–800 BCE

Design for an Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene
Chimú artist(s) · 1000–1470 CE

Design for an Urn on a Stand with a Spirit Lamp
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1825

Stirrup-spout bottle with seated figure
Moche artist(s) · 200 CE–500 CE

Vessel
Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1400

Stirrup-spout bottle with bird warrior
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Glass double head-shaped bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Project for an Ewer and Basin
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

Spout-and-bridge bottle with feline face
Paracas artist(s) · 800–550 BCE

Design for an Urn on a Stand
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1827-1835

Spout-and-bridge bottle with owl head
Virú artist(s) · 150 BCE–500 CE

Cruet with cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Bottle with fox head
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

Double-chambered bottle with mouse
Recuay artist(s) · 200–700 CE

Teapot with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1730
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. 127 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. 2134239 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 2026-09-01 03:48 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.