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 “Vase with alternating landscape and floral scenes” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:23 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 alternating landscape and floral scenes
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Vase
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1735

Vase
Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · 1884–89

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

Vase with landscape scenes
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Vase with scenes of storm on land
Dihl et Guérhard · ca. 1797–98

Frieze
Wallace Wall-Paper Co., Cortland, New York · 1905–1915

Vase with scenes of storm at sea
Dihl et Guérhard · ca. 1797–98

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

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Frieze
Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA · 1905–1915

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris
Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

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

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Frieze
Alfred Peats Company · 1905–1915

Marble-top table
Theophil Hansen · ca. 1855–65

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

Vase with cover (vase des âges) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1788

Flounce
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Shield with Hunting and Landscape Vignettes
Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–90
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. 261 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. 1528508 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-08 06:23 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.