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 Vessel in the Form of a Cock” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 02:30 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 Vessel in the Form of a Cock
Artist not stated in the record · 500 BCE–300 CE

Spinning wheel
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

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

Balance cock / coque de montre
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Plate, from a series of designs for ewers and vessels
Hieronymus Cock, Netherlandish, ca. 1510 - 1570 · 1548

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

Lime green suit jacket and pants worn by Ira Tucker Sr.
San Carlo, Italian

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

Postcard of two men posing in a Western scene in a photography studio
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

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

Balance cock / coque de montre
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Terracotta askos (flask with a spout) in the form of a cock
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 3rd century BCE

Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walter) Kuntze
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1972

Beaker
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE

Ah-tón-we-tuck, Cock Turkey, Repeating His Prayer
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1830

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

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

Terracotta askos (flask) in the form of a rooster
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

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

Lime container
Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE
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. 3033 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. 7483691 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 2026-08-30 02:30 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.