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 peacock and peonies” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 01:36 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 peacock and peonies
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century
Peacocks and Peonies II
John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910 · 1882

Animal-Spouted Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century
Peacocks and Peonies I
John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910 · 1882

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase
Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

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

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

White peacock and peonies
Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) · mid 17th-early 18th century

Peacocks and Peonies
Tani Bunchō · 1820

Peacock, peonies and pine
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Bingata Panel with Tree Peonies and Peacocks
Teruyo Shinohara · 20th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Dish with peafowls and peonies
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Ewer and Basin
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1800

Basin decorated with peonies
Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th century

Ritual wine ewer (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100-1050 BCE
Case (Inrō) with Design of Peacock on Rock with Peonies
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Design for a Sculpture in the Form of a Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

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

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

Incense burner with peacock and peony
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Vase Mounted as Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century
Pear-Shaped Bottle with a Bullock Design
Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century
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Ewer
Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1686–1701
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. 30 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. 1523409 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 2026-09-10 01:36 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.