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 design of "Hundred Antiques"” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:00 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
Artist not stated in the record · 1713–22

Taizan ware vase with design of the character for "longevity"
Taizan Yohei · 1850-1860

Vase
John Bennett · 1882

Vase with design of dragons chasing flaming jewel
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Vase
Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1690

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Vase
Tucker Factory · 1828–36

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design
Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

Presentation Vase
Thomas Fletcher · 1825

Ornamental Vase Design
Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

The Bryant Vase
Tiffany & Co. · 1876

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

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Bouquet holder, peacock tail motif, mother of pearl handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Vase
Kate B. Sears · ca. 1892

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

Vase
Louis C. Tiffany · 1893–96

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

Vase
Matthew Boulton · ca. 1772

Ornamental Vase Design
Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775

Vase
Louis C. Tiffany · ca. 1900

Ornamental Vase Design
Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1760-1775
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. 1275 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 2900713 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-03 04:00 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.