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. 23 shown for “Ritual grain serving vessel (Dou)” — 55 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ritual grain serving vessel (Dou)
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Ritual wine warmer with taotie
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 11th century BCE

Grain Serving Vessel (Dou)
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–3rd century BCE

Ritual grain server (gui)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200-1050 BCE

Food serving vessel (dui)
Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century BCE

Ritual grain server with lid (gui) and water buffalos
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th-early 10th century BCE

Food serving vessel (dou)
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BC

Ritual grain server (gui) with masks
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 11th-early 10th century BCE

Grain Serving Vessel (Dui)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE

Ritual grain server (gui)
Artist not stated in the record · 9th-8th century BCE

Grain serving vessel (gui)
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century BCE

Ritual food serving vessel (jing gui)
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century BCE

Vessel for Ritual Offering (Dou)
Artist not stated in the record

Ritual grain server (gui) with spikes, ribs, and, dragons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1050-1000 BCE

Vessel for Ritual Offering (Dou)
Artist not stated in the record

Ritual serving vessel with lid (fu) and dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Grain serving vessel (Gui)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th century BCE

Ritual grain server (gui) with square base and masks, dragons, and birds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 11th-early 10th century BCE

'Otua fefine (deity figure)
Ha'apai Islands artist · Early 19th century

Venetian
Reed & Barton, American, 1824–2015 · ca. 1880–85

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · 1480–89

Venetian
Reed & Barton, American, 1824–2015 · ca. 1880–85

Whistle with the Maize God emerging from a flower
Maya artist(s) · 600–900 CE
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. 15 matched · 15 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. 181369 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 19:53 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.