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 beaker with painted inscription” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 09:32 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 beaker with painted inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Porcelain Cup, Saucer, and Glass Beaker with Box
Buen Retiro Manufactory, Spanish, 1759 – 1808 · ca. 1803–1808

Terracotta beaker with painted inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 1662–1722

Terracotta beaker with painted inscription
Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–mid-3rd century CE

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 1662–1722

Beaker
Anton Kothgasser · early 19th century

Beaker with Water Birds (One of a Pair)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th century

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

Beaker with Water Birds (One of a Pair)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th century

Terracotta pyxis (box)
Penthesilea Painter · ca. 465–460 BCE

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)
New York Nessos Painter · second quarter of the 7th century BCE

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 400–600

Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 7th century BCE

Jar
Pipsshank · 1884

Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Plate, from the "Eden" Service (One of Sixteen)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1787

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 1767

Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Beaker
Geert Jacobs van Ootmarssen, Dutch · 1678–1679
Beaker
Artist not stated in the record · last half 9th century

Glass Beaker, from a Buen Retiro Porcelain Tea or Coffee Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1803
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. 476 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. 291437 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-29 09:32 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.