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. 16 shown for “Figure with Cup and Disk” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Figure with Cup and Disk
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–5th century

Study of Bending Nude Figure Holding Cup
Louis Schaettle, American, 1867–1917 · ca. 1900

Disk
Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Tapestry fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Cup and Saucer
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Monumental vase
Pierre Philippe Thomire · lapidary work: early 19th century; pedestal and mounts: 1819

Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 300 BCE

Disk
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Karttikeya, the God of War
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Seated female figure
Nayarit artist(s) · 100–400 CE

Seated male figure
Nayarit artist(s) · 100–400 CE

Ornamental disk
Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE
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. 11734 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1534437 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:21 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.