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 sprinkler bottle in the shape of a fish” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:52 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 sprinkler bottle in the shape of a fish
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century CE

snuff bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 1821–51

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

Bottle (Sprinkler)
Unidentified · 1700-1800

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

Bottle (Sprinkler)
Unidentified · 1700-1800

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

Bottle (Sprinkler)
Unidentified · 1700-1800

Sprinkler
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bottle (Sprinkler)
Unidentified · 1700-1800

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Bottle (Sprinkler)
Unidentified · 1700-1800

Microscope
Claude-Siméon Passemant · ca. 1750

Bottle (Sprinkler)
Unidentified · 1700-1800

Bottle
Wistarburgh Glassworks · 1738–ca. 1777

Bottle (Sprinkler)
Unidentified · 1700-1800

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

Bottle (Sprinkler)
Unidentified · 1700-1800

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

Bottle of custom made “Lena” perfume gift with drawstring bag and card
Unidentified · after 1950

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1773

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

Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98

Condiment Bottle
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. 2733 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. 7483643 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 10:52 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.