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. 14 shown for “Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup)” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 12:47 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 kantharos (drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · early 3rd century BCE

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

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

kantharos
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 6th century BC

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 650–600 BCE

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325–300 BCE

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup)
Group of Vatican G.116 · 3rd century BCE

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup)
Group of Vatican G.116 · ca. 300 BCE

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

Terracotta one-handled kantharos (drinking cup)
Class of the One-handled Kantharoi · ca. 500 BCE

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup) in the form of the heads of Herakles and of a woman
Syriskos Painter · ca. 470 BCE

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 700–675 BCE

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with two high handles)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–400 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. 13055 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. 10620 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 12:47 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.