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. 12 shown for “Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Vessel terminating in the head of a ram
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–6th century BCE

Diana and the Stag
Joachim Friess · ca. 1620

Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Painter of the Dublin Situlae · mid-4th century BCE

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210

Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)
Sydney Cluster · ca. 620–590 BCE

Terracotta pyxis (box)
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of 5th century BCE

Terracotta vessel in the shape of a bent leg
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–500 BCE

Cup in the form of a stag
Christoph Beham · ca. 1600–1610
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. 156 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:42 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.