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 “Pitcher decorated with ibexes” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1430

Wine Pitcher with Putti, Vines, and Goats
Joseph Angell II, English, 1816 – 1891 · 1854

Pitcher decorated with ibexes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–600 BCE

Pitcher
Ernest Chaplet, French, 1935 – 1909 · ca. 1885

Pitcher
J. Eberly and Company · 1892–1903

Pitcher
Ernest Chaplet, French, 1935 – 1909 · 1882–85

Animal-Spouted Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1710

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–mid-19th century

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–65

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–mid-19th century

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–65

Pitcher
Jonas & Walley · 19th century

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1835–65
Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Pitcher
Ceramic Art Company, Trenton, New Jersey · 1889–1906

Pitcher
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1877–1885

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1835–65

Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Pitcher
Tiffany & Co. · 1874–75

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Pitcher
Robert and William Wilson · ca. 1845

Burette
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748
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. 189 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 276346 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 17:20 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.