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 “Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a man” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a man
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · ca. 1738

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Alabastron (Oil or Perfume Flask)
Unidentified (ancient Mediterranean) · 6th-5th century BC

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)
Group of the Paidikos Alabastra · ca. 510–500 BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1742-1750

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the shape of a hare
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600–550 BCE

Perfume Burner (Cassolette)
Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · 1750–1765

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)
Painter of Palermo 1162 · ca. 480 BCE

Perfume Burner Designs
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

Terracotta Columbus alabastron (perfume vase)
Beldam Painter · ca. 470 BCE

Three Designs: Perfume Burner, Vase, Plinth
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)
Painter of New York 21.131 · ca. 510–500 BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1760

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)
Laurion Painter · ca. 575–550 BCE

Title Page
Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)
Persephone Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)
Beth Pelet Painter · ca. 460 BCE

Title Page
Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune, French, 1741–1814 · 1788

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)
Beth Pelet Painter · ca. 460 BCE

Vase
The Gates Potteries, 1890 – 1930 · 1905–20

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 620–590 BCE

Man with a Perfume Burner
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758
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. 936 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. 7483527 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-26 20:48 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.