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 “Turkey Vessel” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Cladocora caespitosa
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1977

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Cladocora caespitosa
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1977

Censer
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

The Two Turkeys
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

Turkey Vessel
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–10th century

Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–80

Seated goddess with a child
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Terracotta plate
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider
Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1268

Vessel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2700–2400 BCE

Terracotta footed dish
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Vessel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Fragment of a terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century 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. 225 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. 173492 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 05:32 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.