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. 12 shown for “Jar with Three Inscribed Bands in Cursive Script” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Jar with Three Inscribed Bands in Cursive Script
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Ewer with Horsemen Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes to its Owner
Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th–early 13th century

Candlestick inscribed with Wishes for Good Fortune, Peace, and Happiness to its Owner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · dated 986 AH/1578–79 CE

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

"How a Braggart was Drowned in a Well", Folio 33v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · ca. 1430

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Coffin of Ukhhotep, son of Hedjpu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Panel with Geometric Pattern and Benedictory Inscriptions
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–mid-14th 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. 147 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 00:41 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.