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 “Exhibition Vase with Scenes from the Ramayana” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 02:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Exhibition Vase with Scenes from the Ramayana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880s

Rama and Lakshman with the sage Vishvamitra, from a Ramayana
Attributed to the Master of Style II of the ‘Shangri’ Ramayana · ca. 1680-1690

Vase
Greenwood Pottery Company · ca. 1884–93

Vase
Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · 1884–89

Vase
John Bennett · 1882

Vase
Joseph Bailey Sr., American, d. 1898 · 1898

The Bryant Vase
Tiffany & Co. · 1876

Lakshmana at the hermitage, folio from a Ramayana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690-1710

Bowl with The Virgin and the Unicorn and arms of Matthias Corvinus and Beatrice of Aragon
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1486–88

Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · ca. 1738

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738–72

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Beaker-shaped vase, from a five-piece garniture
Artist not stated in the record · 1662-1722

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Plan et Coupe d'une Gallerie Ornée de figures et de Vases
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Ornamental Vase Design
A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1772-1793

Vase
Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1882–89

Illustration for the Poem ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat’
Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

Vase
Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1882–89

Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · ca. 1738

Vase
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1735

Chaire de l’Eglise de St. Nicolas du Chardonet sur le dessein de Mr. Le Brun
Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · 1657–1716
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. 2112 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 1457216 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-09 02:44 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.