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 “Octagonal cup with dragon handles” — 58 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Octagonal cup with dragon handles
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Octagonal Cup and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1735–1745

Cup with dragon handles
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Fork with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Cup with dragon handles and saucer
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Cup with dragon handles
Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

Octagonal cup with ring handle
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Cups
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Cup
Artist not stated in the record · wecond half 19th century
Knife with Figural Carved Wood Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Cup with Dragon-Shaped Handles
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

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

Mortar and Pestle made for Abu Bakr 'Ali Malikzad al-Tabrizi
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Cup with dragon-head handle (pastiche)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

Amphora with dragon-shaped handles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 7th–first half of 8th century

SAUCIERES ET GOBLETS
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Cup modeled after a rhyton
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

Teapot
Artist not stated in the record · rock crystal ca. 1700, mounts ca. 1720

Knife with Agate Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1800

Miniature Tea Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–35

Fork with Agate Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1800

Coffeepot
Meissen Manufactory · manufactured ca. 1715–20; decorated ca. 1728–30

Knife with Fluted Agate Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 313906 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-28 03:29 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.