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. 18 shown for “Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:27 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 fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

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

Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · 460–440 BCE

Water jug
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Untitled (Memory Jug with Glass Eye, Advertising Buttons, and Shells)
Unidentified · ca. 1890-1920

Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · 460–440 BCE

Vecchia Contadina (Old Farm Woman)
Angelo Leone · after 1873

Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · 460–450 BCE

Le Buveur (the Drinker)
Artist not stated in the record · 1770s

Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: olpe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · third quarter of the sixth century BCE

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash
William Fountain, English · 1806

Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 540 BCE

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–early 9th century BCE

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-4th century BCE

Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug)
Group of the Early Olpai · 1st half of 6th century BCE

Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 460–440 BCE

Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (jug)
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th 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. 468 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. 2881074 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:27 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.