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 fragmentary beaker with painted decoration” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Mechanical table
Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Plate, from the "Eden" Service (One of Sixteen)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1787

Glass fragmentary beaker with painted decoration
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE

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

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

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 1662–1722

Mechanical table (Table mécanique)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1778

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 1662–1722

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

Beaker with Water Birds (One of a Pair)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th century

Beaker
Harrachsche Hütte · ca. 1840

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

Miniature collector's cabinet
Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Beaker with Water Birds (One of a Pair)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th century

Beaker
Meissen Manufactory · 1724–25

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

Beaker
Anton Kothgasser · early 19th century

beaker
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1827

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

Beaker glass
Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 1516 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. 360032 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 11:13 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.