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. 23 shown for “Terracotta jug and lid” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:05 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 jug and lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550 BCE

Jug and lid
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · ca. 1765

Jug
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1872–75

Apostles
Charles Meigh, English, active 1812 – 1861 · 1842

Terracotta jug with lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–500 BCE

Design for a Jug
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

Terracotta jug with lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 575–550 BCE

Nineveh
Ridgway & Abington · ca. 1851

Covered Milk Jug
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 19th century

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with lid and knob (27.16)
Exekias · ca. 540 BCE

Jug
Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca 1750
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Covered Milk Jug
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1780

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Amasis Painter · ca. 550–530 BCE

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

Terracotta spouted jug with high handle and slip lid
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Terracotta pitcher with lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 730 BCE

Covered Milk Jug
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · 1780–1800

Terracotta oinochoe (jug) with lid
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Milk Jug with "Strohblumen" Pattern
Tettau Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1794 · ca. 1790

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Achilles Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Covered Milk Jug
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770
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. 1444 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. 1465195 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-05 01:05 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.