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 lion-head handles” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:19 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 lion-head handles
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

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

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

Design for a Vase
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

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

Ornamental Vase Design
L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736 · 1761-1762

Two bronze handles
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

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

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

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

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with double handles
Diosphos Painter · ca. 500 BCE

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

Vase with lion-head handles
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Terracotta guttus (flask with handle and vertical spout)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1755-1768

Bronze handle of an oinochoe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 425–400 BCE

Friezes; An Antique Sarcophagus; A Vase
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

Bronze handle of an oinochoe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Vase (Plate 1 of a Series)
Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 1543

Terracotta guttus (flask with handle and spout)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674 · 1677-1703

Terracotta guttus with lid (flask with handle and spout)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Arabesque Ornament Design
Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788–89
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. 43 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. 221 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 06:19 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.