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 finial with three flanges” — 45 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:50 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 finial with three flanges
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Pair of Chambersticks with Snuffers
William Cafe, British · 1758

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Two-Armed Candelabra
George Eadon & Company, Sheffield, England · 1817

Helmet of the Montefortino Type
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE; cheekpieces, modern

Birdcage with fishbowl
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Terracotta lead-glazed scyphus (drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · end of 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Candleholder and cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1800

Three Pommel Plates of a Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510–20

Inkstand
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Egg cups and stand
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

The Fishing Temple, Virginia Water, England
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · ca. 1825

Jardiniere
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl with Eagle Finial
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Kettle and stand
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · ca. 1885

Figure for a Pincushion (One of a Pair)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Figure for a Pincushion (One of a Pair)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 258573 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-03 06:50 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.