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. 12 shown for “Vase in the form of a head of Acheloos” — 24 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Vase in the form of a head of Acheloos
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–525 BCE

Faience aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of a head of Acheloös
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London
I N · 1675/76

Vase
Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1690

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)
Class W: The Persian Class of Head Vases · late 5th century BCE

Vase
Louis C. Tiffany · 1893–96

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

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

Vaikuntha Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Head
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 12th–16th century

Bust of a Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Terracotta vase in the form of a bull's head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 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. 47606 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 12:44 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.