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 shape of a monkey” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:44 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 shape of a monkey
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 565–550 BCE

Designs for Tableware, Plate XV of Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils.
William Chambers, British, b. Sweden, 1726–1796 · 1757

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Princeton Group · ca. 540–530 BCE

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1713–22

Ornamental Vase Design
A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1767-1793

Vase
Louis C. Tiffany · 1893–96

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

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

Ornamental Vase Design
St. G..., active 18th century · 1772-1777

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

LE SCULPTEUR
Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1743

Terracotta krater
Hirschfeld Workshop · ca. 750–735 BCE

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Berlin Painter · ca. 490 BCE

Design of a Vase
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1827-1835

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Ornament Panel Design
Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679 · 1660–1716

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

Ornamental Vase Designs
Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century · 1772

Terracotta aryballos (perfume bottle) in the shape of a woman's head
Oxford Class of Head Vases · ca. 500 BCE

from a series of 12 "Ornaments for Goldsmiths" Grotesques
Philip Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612 · ca. 1570

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)
Polyteleia Painter · ca. 630–615 BCE

Ornamental Vase Designs
Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century · 1772
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. 19501 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7484542 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 17:44 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.