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. 16 shown for “Terracotta spouted cup, Vasiliki ware” — 49 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:51 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 spouted cup, Vasiliki ware
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2200 BCE

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

Terracotta footed cup, Vasiliki ware
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2200 BCE

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

Terracotta beak-spouted jar, Vasiliki ware
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2200 BCE

Egg Cup, Teapot, and Goblet
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1788–1796

Terracotta spouted conical bowl, white-on-dark ware
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2400–2200 BCE

Teapot, from a Breakfast Service (Théière; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

Terracotta rim, body and handle from a cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2300 BCE

Satsuma ware sake ewer
Artist not stated in the record · second half of 17th-18th century

Terracotta carinated bridge-spouted jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1750 BCE

Four Incenseures
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Terracotta side-spouted jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2400 BCE

Banko ware pouring bowl with two spouts
Artist not stated in the record · 1740-1800

Terracotta side-spouted jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2400 BCE

Terracotta bridge-spouted jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1450 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14118 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:51 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.