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 vase fragment with white inlay” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:00 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 vase fragment with white inlay
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1700 BCE

Yatsushiro ware vase with trumpet mouth
Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1860

Terracotta rim fragment with white inlay
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1700 BCE

Fragment of an inlay with fish design
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-19 CE

Terracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine)
Oltos · ca. 520–510 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Terracotta pyxis (box)
Penthesilea Painter · ca. 465–460 BCE

Design for Sideboard of Mahogany and Inlay
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Andokides · ca. 530 BCE

Vase
The Gates Potteries, 1890 – 1930 · 1902–20

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

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)
New York Nessos Painter · second quarter of the 7th century BCE

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Terracotta rim fragment with hatched triangle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2300–2100 BCE

Fragment of an inlay plate, with a floral design
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Terracotta rim fragment with linear motifs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2300–2100 BCE

Fragment of an inlay with a floral design
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Terracotta rim fragment with hatched form
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2300–2100 BCE

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

Terracotta rim fragment with running spiral
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2300–2100 BCE

Fragment of an inlay with a floral pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE
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. 16872 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 358695 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-03 13:00 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.