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 “Jug Decorated with Dolphins and Birds” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jug Decorated with Dolphins and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1550 B.C.

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash
William Fountain, English · 1806

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · late 1200s–early 1300s

Milk Jug, from a Breakfast Service (Pot à Lait; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Aryballos
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century to 6th century B.C.

Dish with flowers and birds
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Dish with Japanese court woman and birds
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century, decoration ca. 1750

Oriental
New Wharf Pottery Co., active 1878 – 1894 · ca. 1878–85

Untitled
Nathaniel Seymour · ca. 1790–1820

Pitcher
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1879
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Jug and lid
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · ca. 1765

Jug
Lambeth Factories · ca. 1647

Cream jug and cover with tray
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-16th century

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–60

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Covered Milk Jug
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Vase (one of a pair)
Ignaz Preissler · early 18th century, decoration ca. 1729–32

Design for a Tureen
Artist not stated in the record · 1825-1835

Teapot with cover
Meissen Manufactory · manufactured ca. 1720–25, decorated ca. 1730

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820
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. 2540 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. 2079468 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 16:38 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.