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 elephant head handles and floral decoration” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:30 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 elephant head handles and floral decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Design for a Vase
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Vase
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 1810–1830

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Title Page
Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

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

Panel with San Millán
Master Engelram and his son Redolfo · 1060–80

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

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1757

Pedestal with Female Figures Supporting a Vase
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · late 18th century

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Vase de marbre blanc à Marly
Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56

Century Vase
Karl L. H. Müller · 1877

Vase de marbre blanc à Marly
Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56

Marble strigilated vase with snake handles
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 2nd century CE

Pot-à-Oille (Design for a Tureen with Handle for the Empress Josephine), plate 46, in Recueil de decorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)
Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · 1812

Bronze basket vase with swinging handles
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Title Page
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Group with Horizontal Ivy Leaves · ca. 275–250 BCE

Vase de marbre blanc à Trianon
François Girardon, French, 1628 – 1715 · 1744–56

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Ornamental Vase Design
François Voisin, French, active 18th century · 1786-1789
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. 178 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1571991 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 2026-09-01 07:30 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.