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 lion, elephant, and qilin” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:35 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 lion, elephant, and qilin
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design
L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736 · 1761-1762

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Design for a Vase
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–early 3rd century CE

Ornamental Vase Design
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1755-1768

Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1050

Ornamental Vase Designs
Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century · 1772

Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian
Artist not stated in the record · 521

Spoon with Lion's Head (with Fork and Knife)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Evangelist Saint Mark writing the Gospel with his symbol, the Lion, holding a scroll
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · ca. 1738

Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers
Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Design for a Vase
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

Terracotta cosmetic vase
Artist not stated in the record · 4th quarter of the 6th century BCE

Friezes; An Antique Sarcophagus; A Vase
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

Plaque with God Creating the Animals
Artist not stated in the record · 1084

Allegorical Figure of "Africa"
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1760

Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 10th century

Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738–72

Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Ornamental Vase Design
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1755-1768

Mirror Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Covered Goblet Depicting Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–70
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. 387 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1529212 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 06:35 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.