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. 12 shown for “Glass two-handled jar” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Jar with Two Handles
Unidentified · 100-200

Jar with Two Handles
Unidentified · 200-300

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

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

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

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

Jar and cover
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

Earthenware Jar
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1877

Earthenware Jar
Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857–1903 · 1877

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

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

Crochet Hook 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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 544 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 05:01 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.