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-head handles” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:37 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
Tucker Factory · 1828–36

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

Vase with lion-head handles
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Hexagonal vase with lion-head handles
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

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

Hexagonal vase with lion-head handles
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

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

Vase
Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1690

Vase (Plate 1 of a Series)
Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 1543

Presentation Vase
Thomas Fletcher · 1825

Ornamental Vase Design
Georges Charmeton, French, 1623–1674 · 1677-1703

Vase
George E. Ohr · 1900

Arabesque Ornament Design
Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788–89

Vase
George E. Ohr · ca. 1895–96

Ornamental Vase Design
A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1772-1793

Vase
Tiffany & Co. · 1900

Vase (Plate 6 of a Series)
Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 17th century

Two bronze handles
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 5th century BCE

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

Terracotta askos (flask with a spout and handle over the top)
Bolsena Group · ca. 300–250 BCE

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

Terracotta two-handled vase
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Vase After the Antique
Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792
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. 3128 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 2254 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 09:37 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.