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. 21 shown for “Lime Container with Figural Handles” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 10:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lime Container with Figural Handles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Kylix
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 440 BC

Poporo (lime container) with female figures
Quimbaya artist(s) · 1–600 CE

Urn
Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1749 – 1760 · ca. 1755

Lime container
Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

The Lime-Burner
James McNeill Whistler, American, 1834–1903 · 1859

Lime container in the shape of a captive
Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

Teapot and cover
John Turner, Lane End, Staffordshire, England, 1759 - 1780 · ca. 1785

Anthropomorphic Lime Container
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Anthropomorphic Lime Container
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE–300 CE
Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Knife with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Mortimer & Hunt · Handle ca. 1710; blade ca. 1840

Vessel with mythological scene
Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1618

Bottle in the shape of a feline
Wari artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Fork with Ornately Engraved Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1621
Stirrup-spout bottle with deer
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Portrait Head Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations
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. 279 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. 340432 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 10:56 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.