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 “Ritual vessel (yi) with cover” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Ritual vessel (yi) with cover
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

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

Ritual vessel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 11th century-early 10th century BCE

Spouted Ritual Water Vessel (He)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Ritual vessel (you) and cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 11th-early 10th century BCE

Vessel with ritual scene
Recuay artist(s) · 200–700 CE

Ritual vessel (kuei) with cover
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Vessel with mythological scene
Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Ritual wine vessel (hu)
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Ritual Wine Container (Yu)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Ritual wine vesssel (hu) with bird-shaped cover
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Ritual Wine Container (Yu)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Ritual vessel with cover
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

Wine container (hu)
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Square lidded ritual wine container with lid (fangyi)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200-1050 BCE

Earflare with ritual procession
Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE

Lidded ritual container (hu) with painted decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

Wine container (Hu)
Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 8th century BCE

Vessel (kuei) and cover with stand
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century BCE

Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2900 BCE

Lidded square ritual wine vessel (fanghu) with painted decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

Yoke-form vessel
Maya artist(s) · 350–450 CE

Ritual wine container (fangyi) with masks(taotie), serpents, and birds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100 BCE
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. 187 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 419780 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-02 13:22 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.