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 in the shape of a woman's head” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London
I N · 1675/76

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

Jug in the shape of a woman's head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Cathedral in Mexico with Figure
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1890–93

Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of Swimming Woman Holding a Dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman posing with a striped parasol
Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

Canopic Jar (07.226.1) with a Lid Depicting a Queen (30.8.54)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE or shortly thereafter

Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman standing with a pedestal table
Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

Jug
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1872–75

Drawing
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775

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

Figure Studies
Michel Odieuvre, French, 1687 – 1756 · 1735

Jug
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1880

Woman's Head in Exotic Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Statue of Kneeling Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

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

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Recollection of a View from a Hill near Cartago, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1853

Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head
Oxford Class of Head Vases · ca. 500 BCE

Covered Milk Jug
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Vecchia Contadina (Old Farm Woman)
Angelo Leone · after 1873

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Alcove with the Daughters of Pelias Assassinating their Father
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1658–1703
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. 7064 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. 7484488 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-03 01:50 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.