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. 12 shown for “Small Jar” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:45 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 Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Small Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1620–40

Small Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1620–40

Small Jar (Kotsubo)
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

small Cylindrical Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Small Jar (Ko-tsubo) with Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640s

Untitled
Dave (later recorded as David Drake) · 1858

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 300 BCE–200 CE

Small terracotta jar with four handles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1750 BCE

Small Carinated Jar with Cloth Lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE
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Ointment Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 B.C.
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. 457 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. 89868 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 05:45 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.