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 “Water jar with spout (vase à bec)” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Water jar with spout (vase à bec)
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Rocaille Arch and Fountain with a Vase and Sea Horses
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1743-1763

Terracotta spouted jug with high handle and slip lid
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Ornament Composition
P. Ludovik, French?, active mid 18th century · ca. 1745

Magical Water Jar of Sithathoryunet with Lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1813 B.C.

Sketches of a Fountain in Rome
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1881

Terracotta pelike (jar)
Somzée Painter · ca. 420–410 BCE

Vase, plate 18 of "Suite de Vases"
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

Terracotta beak-spouted jar, Vasiliki ware
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2200 BCE

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1893–1909

Dragon jar
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design
Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762 · 1737

Terracotta stirrup jar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Design for a Decorative Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Terracotta amphora (jar)
Group with Horizontal Ivy Leaves · ca. 275–250 BCE

An Oil Burning Lamp
Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · 1775–1880

Faience double-spouted vessel in the form of a kneeling woman holding a jar
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 6th century BCE

Ornamental Vase Design
A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1767-1793

Bronze hydria (water jar)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

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

Sake vessel (Heishi)
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Design for a Hot Water Spout
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Vessel with mythological scene
Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE

Design for a Hot Water Spout
Artist not stated in the record · 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. 173 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. 1891921 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-02 00:39 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.