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 jug with trefoil rim” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:50 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 jug with trefoil rim
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century CE or later

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–20

Glass jug with trefoil rim
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century CE

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–20

Glass jug with trefoil rim
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–mid-5th century CE

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Glass jug with trefoil rim
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash
William Fountain, English · 1806

Glass jug with trefoil rim
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century CE

Jug and lid
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · ca. 1765

Glass jug with trefoil rim
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century CE

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–60

Glass jug with trefoil rim
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century CE

Design for a Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Glass jug with trefoil rim
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century CE

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Design for a Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Glass jug
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st–2nd century CE

Covered Milk Jug
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 19th century

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

Design for a Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Glass oinochoe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
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. 205 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. 319729 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-01 16:50 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.