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 “Ewer with dancing females within arcades” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ewer with dancing females within arcades
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–7th century CE

Design for Two Friezes
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

The Dancing Class
Edgar Degas · ca. 1870

Title Page
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

A Pair of Royal Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE

Project for the Decoration of a Bed Alcove
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Ewer in the form of an ostrich and basin
Marx Weinold · ca. 1689–92

Veuë de la Fonteine de Tyvoli
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Jar
Pipsshank · 1884

Woman with a Parrot
Gustave Courbet · 1866

Christ Healing Paralytics near the Pool of Bethesda
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864

Designs for Carved Trophies
François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1740-1748

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Vestige du Septizone de l’Empereur Severe a Rome
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

Ewer with Inscription, Horsemen, and Vegetal Decoration
`Umar ibn al-Hajji Jaldak · dated 623 AH/1226 CE

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

Plate Depicting a Female Figure Riding a Fantastic Winged Beast
Artist not stated in the record · probably 8th century

Design for a Pendant Trophy
René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723 · 1738–61

Smiling figure (Sonriente)
South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Design for Bedroom Furniture
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350
![The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist [above]; John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-9640_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist [above]; John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before
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. 55 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 787984 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 08:02 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.