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 “Painter of London E 317” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar)
Painter of London E 317 · mid-5th century BCE

Portrait of a Raja, probably Raja Dhrub Dev of Jasrota
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1690-1700

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Group E · ca. 550 BCE

Benjamin West
Charles Heath, 1785 - 1848 · 1818

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora
Euphiletos Painter · ca. 530 BCE

Benjamin West
James Fittler, 1758 - 1835 · 1817

Terracotta rhyton (vase for libations or drinking)
Painter of London E 100 · ca. 460 BCE

Charles Shannon
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966 · February 5, 1907

Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)
Painter of London E 777 · ca. 450 BCE

Fuirena simplex Vahl
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1946

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Painter of London E 100 · ca. 460 BCE

J. A. M. Whistler
London Stereoscopic Co., active 1854 - c. 1902 · c. 1870

Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar)
Painter of London E 342 · ca. 460 BCE

John Singer Sargent
Hentschel Colourtype Lithography Company, active c. 1907 - 1911 · 1909

Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Painter of London E 497 · ca. 440 BCE

Frank Brangwyn
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966 · September 8, 1904

The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
William Hogarth · 1729

Didymopanax pittieri Marchal
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1889

Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)
Royal Workshops at Greenwich · dated 1527

J. A. M. Whistler
Walter Greaves, 4 Jul 1846 - 23 Nov 1930 · 1870

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

J. A. M. Whistler
Vincent, Brooks, Day & Son Lithography Company, active 1867 - c. 1905 · 1878

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Berlin Painter · ca. 490 BCE

George Catlin
William Fisk, 1796 - 8 Nov 1872 · 1849
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. 1804 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. 3574912 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-27 17:43 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.