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. 23 shown for “Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:51 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 overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid- to late 3rd millennium BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

Terracotta vessel fragment with three bands and a scale pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

The Adoration of the Magi
Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1835–45

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1795–99

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Ornamental Vase Design
Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1760

Terracotta pithoid jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1050 BCE

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Vase Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Title Page
Jean Claude Thomas Duplessis, French, 1730-1783 · 1775-1780

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

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

Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Virgin and Child
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Etui Designs
Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771
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. 147 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. 3147719 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-27 08:51 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.