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 ring handles” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 05:33 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 ring handles
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Mantel clock
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Vase
Tucker Factory · 1828–36

Plate from Omnia Conando Docilis Solertia Vincit (A Docile Disposition will Conquers all Difficulty)
Paul Birckenhultz, German, 1561 - 1639 · Ca. 1600

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1713–22

Ornamental Vase Design
Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

Vase
Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1690

Ornamental Vase Design
Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, French, 1739 – 1781 · 1760-1764

Tea or hot water urn
John McMullin · 1799

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

Presentation Vase
Thomas Fletcher · 1825

Ornamental Vase Designs
Théodore Bertren, active in France, 18th century · 1772
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Bouquet holder, scaly surface pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Vase
George E. Ohr · 1900

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

Vase
George E. Ohr · ca. 1895–96

Design for a Vase and Figure Sketches
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1650

Vase
Tiffany & Co. · 1900

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

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

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

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

Vase with Flowers
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century
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. 3590 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 266225 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-30 05:33 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.