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 vase with cloud-shaped handles” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 02:25 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 vase with cloud-shaped handles
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Title Page
Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

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

Stove and cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

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

Hexagonal vase with lion-head handles
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

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

Hexagonal vase with lion-head handles
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Large Two Tined Serving Fork with Brass Handle
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Hexagonal vase with tubular handles
Artist not stated in the record · first half 19th century

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

Hexagonal vase with tubular handles
Artist not stated in the record · first half 19th century

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

Hexagonal vase with stylized phoenix handles
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Border
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Hexagonal flower vase with magic fungus handles
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

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

Vessel with mythological scene
Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Inkstand
Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

Glass hexagonal bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Wine Pitcher with Putti, Vines, and Goats
Joseph Angell II, English, 1816 – 1891 · 1854

Vase (one of a pair)
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1762

Ornamental Vase Design
A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1767-1793
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. 27 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. 308 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 02:25 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.