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 cantharus (cup with two handles)” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:38 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 cantharus (cup with two handles)
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

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

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

Glass gladiator cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE

Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

Glass cantharus (drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 40–80 CE

Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

Glass cup
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Two-Handled Cup
John Samuel Hunt, English, 1785 – 1865 · 1855

Glass hexagonal amphoriskos
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Cup with "Etruscan" Handles and Saucer (Gobelet à Anses Etrusques et Soucoupe)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1795–1805

Terracotta cantharus (drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

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

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)
Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1752–53

Covered Two-Handled Cup and Saucer
Coalport Porcelain Factory, English, active late 18th - 20th centuries · ca. 1830

Vase (vase chinois) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1791

Egg cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Glass jug
Ennion · 1st half of 1st century CE

Cup and Saucer, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

Vase (vase gothique Fragonard) (one of a pair)
Alexandre Evariste Fragonard · manufactured 1832, decorated 1844

Beaker with Two Handles and Saucer
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 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. 1082 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. 339690 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 19:38 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.