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 “Pear-Shaped Vase” — 52 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pear-Shaped Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Vase with Flowers
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Terracotta pithoid jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

Design for Rococo Ornament
P. Ludovik, French?, active mid 18th century · 1768

Terracotta pithoid jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

A Mantel and Overmantel Mirror Design
Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century · 1755–76

Terracotta pithoid jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1200 BCE

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century
Pear-Shaped Bottle with a Bullock Design
Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Vase
Niloak · ca. 1900

Miniature alabaster pithoid jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

Vase
Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

Terracotta pithoid jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 13th century BCE

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

Terracotta pithoid jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1350 BCE

Two Designs for Hand Fans
Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

Terracotta pithoid jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1190 BCE

Two Designs for Hand Fans
Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

Glass flask
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Caster and cover
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Model Jar Inscribed for Sennefer and Senetnay
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Two Designs for Hand Fans
Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Egg cups and stand
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
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. 36 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. 28 matched · 28 examined · 12 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 21:06 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.