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 “Oil bottle decorated with floral scrolls and lotus petals” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 10:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Oil bottle decorated with floral scrolls and lotus petals
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

Floral Collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Bottle with Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century

Oil Lamp with Snake Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Scarab Decorated with Scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1670 B.C.

Vase
Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · 1680–1710

Enameled and Gilded Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Vase
Jan Jansz Van Der Laan · ca. 1680–1710

Scarab with Crucifom Lotus Flower Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–1670 B.C.

Lobed bowl with lotus petals, birds, animals, and floral scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th-early 8th century

Water Bottle from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

Glass hunt-and-scroll bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Quail and Floral Decoration
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1886

Terracotta oil lamp
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century CE

Ceiling Design
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1730

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century A.D.

Long-Necked Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Button
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Lotus and waterbirds
Unidentified artist · ca. 1300

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1720
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. 99 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. 1534989 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-10 10:34 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.