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. 23 shown for “Jar with Dragon” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jar with dragon
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century
![Table de Cabinet., 6th Plate [Study for a Table], pl. 47 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-26802_02-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Table de Cabinet., 6th Plate [Study for a Table], pl. 47 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · after 1200

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Jar with Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Jar with dragon handles
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Man's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

Dragon jar
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Design for an Escutcheon with Allusions to Egypt
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1725–50

Jar with dragon
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

U Defensivo
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1500

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

VN DIFENSIVO
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Jar
John M. Safford · 1838

MASTICI
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Jar with dragon handles
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Oyster jar from the Thomas Downing oyster house
Unidentified · ca 1840

Untitled
Dave (later recorded as David Drake) · 1858

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875
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. 5217 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. 309511 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-27 11:45 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.