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 bottle with snake-thread decoration” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:39 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 bottle with snake-thread decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Bottle case and cover
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories
Wogdon & Barton · 1801–3

Bottle
Unidentified

Nécessaire (one of a pair)
John Barbot · ca. 1760

Bottle
Unidentified

Glass snake-thread flask shaped like a mouse
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Bottle
Unidentified

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

Stratified Tube-Blown Ribbon Bottle
Unidentified (Roman) · 1st century A.D.

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

Bottle
Unidentified (Roman)

Glass sprinkler flask with snake-thread decroation
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Bottle
Unidentified

Glass beaker with snake-thread decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Bottle
Unidentified

Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Designs for Silver Serving Pieces
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

Glass jug with snake-thread decoration
Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–3rd century CE

Condiment Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Glass goblet with snake-thread decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Condiment Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Scent bottle and lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870
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. 328 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 374 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 07:39 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.