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. 18 shown for “Vase decorated with magnolia, hollyhocks, and pheasants” — 46 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Vase decorated with magnolia, hollyhocks, and pheasants
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve)
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784 · 1754–1758

Vase decorated with auspicious animals
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Copy of the Portland Vase
Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, British · 1850–1860

Fruit and Flowers
Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1630

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

A Vase with Flowers
Jacob Vosmaer · probably 1613

Design for a Vase
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

Basket of Flowers
Eugène Delacroix · 1848–49

POELE Russe, décoré de Cariatides, et surmonté d’un vase antique
Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

Seal casket with cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Gourd-Shaped Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1670–1680

Vase
Edward Lycett, American, born England, 1833 - 1909 · 1902

POELE Russe, décoré de Cariatides, et surmonté d’un vase antique
Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

Vase (One of a Pair)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1868

Vase (One of a Pair)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1868

Vase
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1882

Miniature Vase on Pedestal (One of a Pair)
Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · mid-18th century
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1543773 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-01 09:36 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.