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 “Tankard with Peony Scroll” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tankard with Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Böttger Stoneware Tankard
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1715

Bottle with Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century

Pewter-Mounted Tankard
R. Broadhead & Company, English, established 1853 · late 19th century

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Ornamental Design for the Decoration of a Tankard
Artist not stated in the record · 1717-1794

Tankard
Thomas Hamersley · ca. 1763

Tankard
Artist not stated in the record · 1703

Tankard
Jacobus Vander Spiegel · 1695–1700

Textile
Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1875–1941 · late 19th century

Tankard
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1725–30

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Covered Box on Stand
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

Dish with Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Napkin
Artist not stated in the record · 1680s

Peony and Bamboo
Ike (Tokuyama) Gyokuran · ca. 1768

Sidewall
Howell and Brothers, 1835 – 1900 · ca. 1880

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Elevation of a Tray with Two Tankards and a Hand Bell
Vincenzo Belli, Italian, 1710 - 1787 · 1830–1860

Jug with Floral Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Peonies
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Tankard
Bartholomew Schaats · 1700–1730

Tankard
Florence E. Barlow, English, 1873–1909 · 1884
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. 79 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. 250688 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-27 11:45 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.