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 “Drug vase (one of a pair)” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drug vase (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1620–80

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Drug vase (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1620–80

Miniature Vase on Pedestal (One of a Pair)
Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · mid-18th century

Vase
Tucker Factory · 1828–36

Miniature Vase on Pedestal (One of a Pair)
Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · mid-18th century

Vase
Marc Schoelcher · ca. 1815–20

Vase (One of a Pair)
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th–late 19th century

Vase
John Bennett · 1882

Vase (One of a Pair)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1868

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1713–22

Vase (One of a Pair)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1868

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Vase with cover (one of a pair)
I H · 1675–76

Bottle-Shaped Vase (One of a Pair)
Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796 · 1870s

Vase (vase chinois) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1791

Bottle-Shaped Vase (One of a Pair)
Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796 · 1870s

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Design for a Six-Legged Rectangular Table with a Fower Vase
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Presentation Vase
Thomas Fletcher · 1825

Ornamental Vase Design
Louis Doré, French, active 18th century · 1750-1800

Presentation vase
New England Glass Company · 1843

Vase (One of a Pair)
Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796 · ca.1870–1875
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. 6258 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3969729 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-28 22:16 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.