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. 16 shown for “Vase with peaches, pomegranates, and Buddha's hand citrus” — 44 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 02:27 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 peaches, pomegranates, and Buddha's hand citrus
Artist not stated in the record

Vase
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1886

Hexagonal vase with Rococo-style flowers
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Buddha’s Hand Fruits with Peaches, Pomegranates, and Leaves of Fungus
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Vase de marbre blanc à Versailles
Jacques Grimault, French, active 17th century · 1744–56

Fruit and Flowers
Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1630

Pink, brown
Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904 · late 19th–early 20th century

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

Flounce
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Buddhist altarpiece
Artist not stated in the record · 597

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Floral peach brocade evening jacket
Unidentified · 1950s

Ornamental Vase Design
Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778 · 1756-1773

Vase
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1915

Sidewall
Robert Graves Co., New York, New York · 1900
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1532231 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 02:27 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.