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 “Pierced Blue Pot with Animals and Vegetal Scroll” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pierced Blue Pot with Animals and Vegetal Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter 11th or 12th century

Teapot (Théière)
Bourg-la-Reine Porcelain Factory, French, ca. 1773 – 1805 · ca. 1780

Pierced Jug with Harpies and Sphinxes
Artist not stated in the record · dated 612 AH/1215–16 CE

Mustard Pot with Birds
Artist not stated in the record · 1735

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Bough pot
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Black Basalt Bulb Pot
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1780–1800

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Posset Pot
De Paauw (Peacock) Factory, Dutch, active 1651 - 1774 · 1705–40

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Flower pot and stand
De Drie Posteleyne Astonne (The Three Porcelain Ash-Barrels) · 1759–1804

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)
Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1752–53

wooden chair with needlepoint upholstery
Artist not stated in the record · 1690–95

Dish with Two Fighting Lions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1635

Medallion
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

caster
Albertus Kiell · 1875–1900

A Vase of Flowers
Margareta Haverman · 1716

Inkstand
Artist not stated in the record · 1760s–70s

Square Tile
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Pair of mounted vases
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1800
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. 40 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. 2657446 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 15:36 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.