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 “Wine Pouring Vessel (Gong)” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:04 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wine pouring vessel (gong)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century BCE

Ritual wine ewer (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100-1050 BCE

Wine pouring vessel (Gong)
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century BCE

Man Serving Wine from a Vessel, from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum
Artist not stated in the record · 1582

Wine Pouring Vessel (Gong)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century BCE

Hebe Pours Wine into Jupiter's Bowl
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

Wine pouring vessel (Gong)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–11th century BCE

Hebe Pours Wine into Jupiter's Bowl
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

Strainer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
![Seau à rafraichir executé pour M. le Duc en 1723 [Wine Cooler made for M. le Duc (Louis-Henri de Bourbon in 1723], pl.. 58 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-26808_02-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Seau à rafraichir executé pour M. le Duc en 1723 [Wine Cooler made for M. le Duc (Louis-Henri de Bourbon in 1723], pl.. 58 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Decorated Jug with Feline-Head Handle naming Atumemtaneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Mount
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1805

Silver jug with gold rim
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Design for a Cartouche Surmounted by a Tiger
Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

Drinking Vessel (Hanap; one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · 1320–60

The Big Boom (Peasants Under a Vine-Trellis)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Drinking Vessel (Hanap; one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · 1320–60

Bacchus
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

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

Banquet of the Gods
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1810

Wine vessel ( Zun)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–10th century BCE

Bacchus, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1787–1802

Bronze situla (bucket) with swinging handles
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30
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. 79 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 165227 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 10:04 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.