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. 20 shown for “Hexagonal flower vase with magic fungus handles” — 48 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 02:26 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 flower vase with magic fungus handles
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Vase, plate 18 of "Suite de Vases"
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

Hexagonal vase with cloud-shaped handles
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Censer and Candelabrum Design
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Vase with alternating landscape and floral scenes
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Two Candelabra Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Vase with openwork pattern of flowers
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · ca. 1738

Vase with birds and flowers
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738–72

Panel with the moon goddess and attendants
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Pillow cover
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Vase with lion, elephant, and qilin
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Bouquet holder, hexagonal, ivory handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Covered Jar, polychrome floral decoration, handle on cover in shape of squirrel.
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Two Candelabra Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Two Candelabra Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Bouquet holder, fox and basket weave motif
Henry Jenkins and Sons · ca.1871

Ornamental Vase Design
Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

Bouquet holder, incised arches
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1869
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 477531 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-08 02:26 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.