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 jar with three handles” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:56 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 jar with three handles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1490 BCE

Jar
Pipsshank · 1884

Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1100 BCE

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Berlin Painter · ca. 490 BCE

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Jar from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

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

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

Terracotta two-handled vase
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Console Table Design
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

Terracotta pelike (jar)
Somzée Painter · ca. 420–410 BCE

Console Table Design
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

Terracotta collar-necked jar with two handles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2650–2150 BCE

Jug
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · ca. 1872

Terracotta pithoid jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–1300 BCE

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Terracotta jar with vertical handles
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Small terracotta jar with four handles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1750 BCE

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Terracotta miniature jar with two handles
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Perfume Bottle from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875
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. 506 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. 277227 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-27 16:56 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.