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 makara spout” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ritual Ewer with Makara Spout
Artist not stated in the record · Dated by inscription to 1675

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

Ewer with makara spout
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century

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

Ewer
Thomas Fletcher · 1830–40

Design for a Ewer with Spout and Loop Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

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

Ewer with makara spout with lotus-form cover
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century
![Ewer, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-628B550756EB2_02.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Ewer
Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1686–1701

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Ewer with Elephant-Headed Spout
Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–3rd century

Ewer
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1858

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Ewer
Faience Manufacturing Company · 1886–90

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Ewer
Jean Gorges I Morel · early 18th century

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Ewer
Peter Bettesworth · 1635

Design for an Ewer
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · ca. 1710

Ewer with a Cock-Shaped Spout
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–early 9th century

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century
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. 94 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. 248850 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-02 11:12 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.