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 “Glass beaker with facet-cut decoration” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:11 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 beaker with facet-cut decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

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

Beaker
Harrachsche Hütte · ca. 1840

Sweetmeat Glass
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–80

Beaker
Meissen Manufactory · 1724–25

beaker
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1827

Beaker
Vienna · ca. 1725–28

Candlestick
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Beaker
Anton Kothgasser · early 19th century

Mug
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

Cup and saucer with the Chinese story of Sima Guang
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–65

Mug
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

Center table
Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia · ca. 1780–85

Sweetmeat glass
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

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

Sweetmeat glass
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

Beaker (Ranftbecher)
Anton Kothgasser · ca. 1830

Sweetmeat glass
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

Beaker
Antoine Plot · 1752–53

Sweetmeat glass
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 1713–14

Stud and buttons
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
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. 164 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. 521 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-02 11:11 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.