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. 19 shown for “Single Spout Portrait Head Bottle” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Single Spout Portrait Head Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–6th century

Design for an Urn on a Stand with a Spirit Lamp
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1825

Portrait Head Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

Vessel
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1879–82

Bottle with caiman
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1000–800 BCE

Spouted Punch Ladle with Elongated Wood Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 1731

Bottle with portrait head
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Design for an Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Bottle with portrait head
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Teapot with Lion Head Spout
Charles Nicolas Odiot, French, 1789 – 1868 · 1825–1838

Stirrup-spout bottle with seated figure
Moche artist(s) · 200 CE–500 CE

Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Stirrup-spout bottle with palace scene
Chimú artist(s) · 1000–1470 CE

Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Bottle with fox head
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Tuber-inspired stirrup-spout bottle
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Stirrup-spout bottle with bird warrior
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Double-chambered bottle
Bahía artist(s) · 250 BCE–450 CE

Double-chambered bottle
Wari artist(s) · 800–900 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. 38 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. 127048 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:58 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.