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 “Stemmed Glass Cup for Sake” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Stemmed Glass Cup for Sake
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–first half 19th century

Stemmed Blue Glass Cup for Sake
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–first half 19th century

Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée)
Paul Gudin Le Jeune · clock ca. 1750, figures decorated ca. 1737/38

Goblet with Incised Designs
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Standing cup with cover and stand
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1735

Glass ornament in the shape of a fish
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 4th century CE

Goblet with Applied Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–early 12th century

Glass cantharus (drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 40–80 CE

Plaque depicting Bernard Palissy
Sèvres Manufactory · 1846

Beaker with Relief-cut Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Stem cup with cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Cup with seahorse stem
Dr. Antonio Salviati Company · 1860–75
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. 27 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 18:43 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.