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 square bottle with base inscription” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 13:21 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 square bottle with base inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Glass square bottle with base inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Glass square bottle
Artist not stated in the record · mid 1st–end of 2nd century CE

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Glass square bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century CE

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Swan-Neck Glass Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

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

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Enameled and Gilded Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Toothbrush Case from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Glass base fragment of a cylindrical bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Soap Dish from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Bottle with flowers of the four seasons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710

Soap Dish from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Glass 'Mercury' bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Nail File from Traveling Dressing Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Short-Necked bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Tweezers from Traveling Dressing Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1875
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. 817 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. 366122 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-30 13:21 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.