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. 23 shown for “Glass Rods Fused Together” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:52 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 Rods Fused Together
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Mosaic Glass Patella Cup
Unidentified (Roman Empire) · 1st century BC-2nd century AD

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

Bowl
Unidentified

Fused Rods of Opaque Blue Glass
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Flask
Unidentified (Roman Empire) · 1st-4th century AD

Collar Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–early 6th century

Amphora
Unidentified (Roman)

Glass garland bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Flask
Unidentified (Roman)

Disk Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 100–300

Bowl
Unidentified

Millefiori bowl
Vincenzo Moretti · ca. 1880

Vase
Unidentified

Inlays and Shrine Elements
Artist not stated in the record · 380–30 B.C.

Vase
Unidentified (Roman)

Glass mosaic bead
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century CE

Vessel
Unidentified

Bottle
Unidentified

Glass gold-band mosaic scyphus (drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Flask
Unidentified

Gold-glass skyphos (drinking cup) fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Vial
Unidentified
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. 88 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. 89649 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-28 12:52 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.