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. 22 shown for “Model Vase from a Foundation Deposit” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Model Vase from a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Vase
Joseph Bailey Sr., American, d. 1898 · 1898

Model Vase from a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Vase
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1901

Vase
Greenwood Pottery Company · ca. 1884–93

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1850

Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Title Page
Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

Presentation Vase
Thomas Fletcher · 1825

Vase (One of a Pair)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1868

Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Vase (One of a Pair)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1868

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany
Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Vase (One of a Pair)
Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796 · ca.1870–1875

Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Beaker-shaped vase, from a five-piece garniture
Artist not stated in the record · 1662-1722

Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Vase (One of a Pair)
Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796 · ca.1870–1875

Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Model d’un Lit executé pour Monseigneur le Dauphin
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · ca. 1783

Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
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. 1562 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1967834 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:19 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.