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 stylized phoenix handles” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:40 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 stylized phoenix handles
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

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

Glass hexagonal jar with basket handle
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–early 7th century CE

Ornamental Vase Design
Louis Doré, French, active 18th century · 1750-1800

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

Ornamental Vase Design
Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

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

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

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

Ornamental Vase Design
Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

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

Ornamental Vase Designs
Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century · 1772

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

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

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

Ornamental Vase Designs
Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century · 1772

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

Bonad
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

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

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

Hexagonal vase with Rococo-style flowers
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Ornamental Vase Design
Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1100 BCE

Handscreen
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
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. 58 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. 266929 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 06:40 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.