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. 22 shown for “Libation Vessel in the Form of a Conch” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 10:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Libation Vessel in the Form of a Conch
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Wall fountain with cover and basin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Libation Vessel of Manuwai
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

sauce boat
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1790

Carved Conch with Lakshmi-Narayana
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Rocaille Fountain Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1736

Libation Vessel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Design for an altar
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

Gold phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Design for a Main Altar
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

Terracotta askos in the form of a boar
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch shell
Artist not stated in the record

Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Sacrifice of Noah
Pietro Novelli, Italian, 1603 - 1647 · early 17th century

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch, Florida Horse Conch shell
Artist not stated in the record

Terracotta vase in the form of a bull's head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 BCE

Cartouche with Putto Blowing Conch
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738

Covered Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–50 (vessel); ca. 1340–60 (mounts)

Design for an Organ
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780-1790

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE

Fragmentary terracotta rhyton (vase for libations or drinking)
Sotades Painter · ca. 460–450 BCE
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. 2918 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7483691 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 10:29 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.