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. 23 shown for “One of a Pair of Cups” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

One of a Pair of Covered Confinement Cups
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760
One of a Pair of Cups
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
One of a Pair of Cups
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Pair of Covered Confinement Cups
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Wine Glass with Galloping Horse
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1789

Seated Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Birth Glass of the Repelius Family
Artist not stated in the record · 1777
One of a Pair of Cups with Mille-Fleurs Design
Artist not stated in the record

Covered Friendship Goblet of the van Orsoy Family
Artist not stated in the record · 1732–1743
One of a Pair of Cups with Mille-Fleurs Design
Artist not stated in the record

Wine Glass with King David and Jonathan
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

Armorial dish: Supper at the House of Simon the Pharisee
Maestro Giorgio Andreoli · 1528

Wine Glass Commemorating Prince William V (1748–1806), Governor of the Netherlands, and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751–1820)
Artist not stated in the record · 1767–1775

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Goblet Commemorating François Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1725–93) and his wife Everdina Petronella (1730–94), countess of Hogendorp
Artist not stated in the record · 1761–1765

Glass gladiator cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE

Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

Torso of a Bodhisattva
Sahri-Bahlol Workshop · ca. 5th century

Goblet Commemorating the Seven United Provinces and Prince William IV, Governor of the Netherlands
Artist not stated in the record · 1747

Standing shelf (one of a pair)
William Linnell · ca. 1753–54

Cup and Saucer (One of a Pair)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1775–1776
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. 57674 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3970106 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 2026-09-03 19:35 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.