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 “Pair of urns” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 20:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of urns and pedestals
Robert Adam · ca. 1780 with latter additions

Pair of urns
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Pair of Urns
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

Pair of firedogs (chenets)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–85

Design for a Mausoleum
Artist not stated in the record · 1790

Louis XVI
Philippe Laurent Roland · 1787

Pair of Covered Urns
Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · 1740–1750

Pair of urns with covers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Samples
Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA · ca. 1915

Urn with Assyrian scenes
Artist not stated in the record · 1851

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Pair of urns
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–85

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Pair of urns
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Tea Urn
Paul Revere Jr. · 1791

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Porphyry vessel with bearded masks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 1st century BCE‒early 2nd century CE

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Urn (one of a pair)
James Neale · 1778–80

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Alabaster cinerary urn
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Tile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725
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. 9274 matched · 24 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. 2860634 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-04 20:25 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.