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. 12 shown for “One of a Pair of Vases with Dragon Handles” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 19:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

One of a Pair of Vases with Dragon Handles
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · after 1200

One of a Pair of Vases with Dragon Handles
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Vase
Tucker Factory · 1828–36
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

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

Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · porcelain mid-18th century, mounts ca. 1740–50

Tea or hot water urn
John McMullin · 1799

Vase (vase chinois) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1791

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

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Princeton Group · ca. 540–530 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. 9205 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 19:27 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.