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. 15 shown for “Libation cup with chi dragons” — 43 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 03:57 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 cup with chi dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Cup with dragon handles
Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

Oval cup with chi dragons amid clouds
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

Rhacomitrium anomodontoides
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1991

Garden Gathering
Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Cup with dragon-head handle (pastiche)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

SAUCIERES ET GOBLETS
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Anax parthenope julius
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1939

Dicranoloma cylindrothecium (Mitt.) Sakurai
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1991

Panel with Victory Celebration
William Pitts · 1880

Cup with Monogram
Frankenthal Porcelain Factory, German, active mid- to late 18th century · late 18th century

Cup
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · early 19th century

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

Cup and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

Cup and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th 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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 308588 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 03:57 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.