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 fusiform bottle” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 21:16 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 fusiform bottle
Artist not stated in the record · mid-3rd–4th century CE
Sargassum fusiforme
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1910

Glass fusiform bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE
Sargassum fusiforme
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1917

Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories
Wogdon & Barton · 1801–3
Sargassum fusiforme
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1902

Nécessaire (one of a pair)
John Barbot · ca. 1760
Sargassum fusiforme
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1926

Glass fusiform bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century CE
Sargassum fusiforme
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1968

Glass fusiform bottle fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century CE
Sargassum fusiforme
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1968

Bottle
Wistarburgh Glassworks · 1738–ca. 1777
Sargassum fusiforme
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1986

Bottle
Vienna · 1725–30
Sargassum fusiforme
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1964

Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Palmocarpon fusiforme Berry
Artist not stated in the record

Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Sargassum fusiforme
Artist not stated in the record · 5 May 2007

Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century
Sargassum fusiforme
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jan 1931

Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century
Sargassum fusiforme
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jan 1931
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. 1783 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. 85641 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-29 21:16 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.