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. 22 shown for “Small Carinated Jar with Cloth Lid” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 08:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Small Carinated Jar with Cloth Lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

Painted Wide-Mouthed Jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Jar and cover
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 19th century

Cosmetic Box with a Swivel Top
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Carinated Stone Jar with Rope Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Necessaire
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Ointment jar with lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805 B.C.

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Cosmetic jar with lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805 B.C.

Cosmetic jar with lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805 B.C.

Design for Lidded Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Libation jar with with lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1750 BC

Glasses of Henry W. Dennis with eyeglass case
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Small Jug sealed with Cloth
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

17th Century Gentleman Smoking Pipe
Reed & Barton, American, 1824–2015 · ca. 1900

Open-Mouthed Cosmetic Jar with Lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Scent bottle and lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Large Sealed Storage Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 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. 116 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. 352887 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 2026-08-30 08:12 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.