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 “Hexagonal Jug with Handles” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hexagonal Jug with Handles
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–mid-7th century

Large Two Tined Serving Fork with Brass Handle
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Milk Jug with Horn of Plenty and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Glass hexagonal jug
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–early 7th century CE

Milk Jug
Wallendorf Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1764 · ca. 1800

Glass hexagonal jug
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–early 7th century CE

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

Glass hexagonal jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

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

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

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

Glass hexagonal jug
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–early 7th century CE

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

Glass hexagonal jug
Artist not stated in the record · 6th to early 7th century CE

Apostles
Charles Meigh, English, active 1812 – 1861 · 1842

Glass hexagonal jug
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–early 7th century CE

Milk Jug (Pot à Lait à Trois Pieds)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1790

Untitled
Unrecorded Edgefield District potter · ca. 1867–85

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

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890
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. 533 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. 258732 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 01:37 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.