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 in the form of a bull” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:38 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 in the form of a bull's head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 BCE

Vase
The Gates Potteries, 1890 – 1930 · 1905–20

Terracotta vase in the form of a bull
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1050 BCE

Three Vases
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

Terracotta vase in the form of a bull
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1050 BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778 · 1756-1773

Terracotta vase in the form of a bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1200 BCE

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

Terracotta vase in the form of a bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1200 BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · ca. 1738

Terracotta vase in the form of a bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1200 BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737

Terracotta vase in the form of a bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1200 BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1755-1768

Terracotta askos in the form of a boar
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1760

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

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

Vase
Louis C. Tiffany · 1893–96

Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1742-1750

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Table Design with Vases
Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th century

Terracotta bull
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1200 BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · ca. 1738
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. 19885 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. 7483531 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-28 06:38 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.