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. 20 shown for “Glass Bell Beaker with White Trails” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Glass Bell Beaker with White Trails
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–early 6th century

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock
James Cox · 1766

Beaker with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1730

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Beaker with Two Handles and Saucer
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

Beaker
Harrachsche Hütte · ca. 1840

Porcelain Cup, Saucer, and Glass Beaker with Box
Buen Retiro Manufactory, Spanish, 1759 – 1808 · ca. 1803–1808

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72

Glass Beaker, from a Buen Retiro Porcelain Tea or Coffee Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1803

Glass Beaker with White Trails
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 7th century

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Glass "Claw" Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

Beaker
Antoine Plot · 1752–53

beaker
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1827

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 1713–14

Mantel clock
Julien Le Roy · ca. 1745–49

Globular Beaker with Trails
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–7th century

Glass beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century 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. 398 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. 458271 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:51 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.