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 vertical handles” — 64 records examined, 29 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 vertical handles
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Jar and cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Terracotta deep bowl with two vertical handles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1190 BCE

Jar
Pipsshank · 1884

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

Architectural panels from the Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry B. Wheelock, architect)
Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA · ca. 1899

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

Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry Bergen Wheelock, architect)
Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA · ca. 1899

Terracotta collared jar with four lug handles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2700–2200 BCE

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

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

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

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

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup) with vertical ring handles
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Group with Horizontal Ivy Leaves · ca. 275–250 BCE

Stoneware storage jar by David Drake (Dave the Potter)
David Drake, American, circa 1800 - circa 1870 · 1852

Terracotta pithoid jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1200 BCE

Syrup Jar, SYDACETSO
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Terracotta jar with three handles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1490 BCE

Design for an Ovoidal Tureen
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 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. 352 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. 270449 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.