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. 23 shown for “Libation jar with with lid” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:00 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 jar with with lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1750 BC

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

Design for Lidded Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Jar
John M. Safford · 1838

Potpourri bowl with cover
Artist not stated in the record · stoneware 18th century, mounts 1745–49

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with lid and knob (27.16)
Exekias · ca. 540 BCE

Jar and cover
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

Ointment jar from a Foundation Deposit of Hatshepsut's Valley Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Canopic jar with a human-headed lid
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Scent bottle and lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Jar with lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Lidded Jar with Full Moon and Birds
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1884

Kneeling Priest, Pouring Libation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 664–200 BCE

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Jar with Lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Bowl used as lid
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–late 2nd century BCE

Jar and lid
Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

Canopic jar with a baboon-headed lid (Hapy)
Artist not stated in the record · 664–525 BCE

Jar and cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
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. 284 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. 260193 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 18:00 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.