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. 13 shown for “Vase with Poet Zhou Dunyi” — 41 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:28 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 with Poet Zhou Dunyi
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1587

Illustration for the Poem ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat’
Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

Pendant with dragon heads, vase, and raised linked curls
Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

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

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

Vase
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1883

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

Ornamental Vase Design
Louis Doré, French, active 18th century · 1750-1800

Ornamental Vase Design
Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

Ornamental Vase Design
P. Moithey, French, active 18th century · 1767

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 254467 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-27 07:28 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.