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 openwork pattern of flowers” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:39 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 openwork pattern of flowers
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Ewer
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1894

Vase
John Bennett · 1882

Tent panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Vase
Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1690

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Vase
Greenwood Pottery Company · ca. 1884–93

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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

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

Vase
Newcomb Pottery · 1902

Vase and Flowers
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th century

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

Vase
Dedham Pottery · ca. 1896–1908

Bands
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Vase
Factory of Olivier de Sorra · ca. 1885

Vase with Flowers
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Vase
James Callowhill · ca. 1889–1900

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

The Bryant Vase
Tiffany & Co. · 1876

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–90

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Interior Wall Elevation with a Chimneypiece
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779–84
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. 3584 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 2896682 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 06:39 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.