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. 17 shown for “Terracotta amphoriskos (flask) in the form of a shell” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:19 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 amphoriskos (flask) in the form of a shell
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Amphoriskos (Two-Handled Flask)
Unidentified (ancient Mediterranean) · 3rd-1st century BC

Helmet crest from a nja masquerade
Grassfields artists · ca. 1800–80

Book-form
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Amasis Painter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

Glass amphoriskos (flask)
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Distillation flask
Jena Glasswork, Schott & Associates · after 1884

Terracotta amphoriskos (flask) in the form of a bird-man
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Ornamental brick fragment from the Chattahoochee Brick Company
Chattahoochee Brick Company, American, 1878 - 1970s · ca. 1886

Terracotta amphoriskos (flask)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 420 BCE

Terracotta amphoriskos (flask)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Terracotta amphoriskos (flask)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Achilles Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)
Nearchos · ca. 570 BCE

Grere'o (shield)
Solomon Islands artist · Early to mid-19th century

Terracotta amphoriskos (oil flask)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century 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. 1737 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7484477 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 08:19 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.