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 “Jar with Winged Animals over Waves” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jar with Winged Animals over Waves
Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Sun Emerging over Ocean with Waves
William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905 · late 19th century

Altar Bowl with Winged Animals among Waves
Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Bending over a trestle with water jar
Muybridge, Eadweard · 1885-07-21

Beaker with birds and animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Japanese Cranes Over Waves
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · ca. 1870

Casket with Erotes and Animals
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Twenty-Four Putti, Decoration for the Dinning Room, Villa Aldini, Montmorency, France
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812–13

Ear ornament with winged runner
Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Design for a Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805–1810

Ear ornament with winged runner
Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Sun over Waves and Cliffs
William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905 · 1890–1900

The Flims Room
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1682–84

Design for a Woven Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1800–1825

Sacred animal mummy of an ibis inside a jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400 BCE–100 CE

V.PET TORA
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Jar in the form of a bird
R. W. Martin and Brothers · 1888

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

Ọ́bà with Sacrificial Animals from the Ézọ́mọ's Ikẹ̀gòbọ̀ (Altar to the Hand)
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 19th century

Title Page
Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1741

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

Kyoto ware jar with design of phoenixes and paulownia crests
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Anubis Fetish (Imiut)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1885 B.C.

Pennant-Winged Night-Jar, Plate 5 from Birds of Western Africa
Artist not stated in the record · 1837
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. 262 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. 1416492 matched · 40 examined · 14 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, 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.