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 “Lime Pot in the Form of an Elephant” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 07:27 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 Pot in the Form of an Elephant
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–12th century

Elephant's Head
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Covered Lime Pot in the Form of a Rabbit
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 12th century

Cartoon for cotton printing: Les Fables de La Fontaine
Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · 1810-1820

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

George III sterling silver coffee pot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Figures and Doodles
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1848–56

Plaque with the Descent from the Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40
![Proofs for Four Plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter E, by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1634 – 1718](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8D4FB0BB7F422-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Proofs for Four Plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter E
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1634 – 1718 · 1683

Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian
Artist not stated in the record · 521

Deign for a Covered Tureen
Johann Alois Seethaler, 1796 – 1835 · 1825–35

Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1050
![Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8156_03-000003.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before

Teapot in the form of an elephant
Ralph Wood the Younger · second half 18th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

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

Maharana Raj Singh I observing an elephant fight
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670-1675

Crucified Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1260–80

Wine glass cooler-rinser or jam pot
Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · 1739–1749

Booklet with Scenes of the Passion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300 (carving); ca. 1310–20 (painting)

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Plaque with the Journey to Emmaus and Noli Me Tangere
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1115–20

Designs for Cartouches
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900
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. 626 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 7483687 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-30 07:27 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.