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 “Altar Bowl with Fish” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 03:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Altar Bowl with Fish
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

An altar dedicated to Apollo
Artist not stated in the record · 1815

Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

The elevation of an altar with alternative suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800
Bowl with Central Fish Motif
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Design for Various Decorations including "Coriolanus at the Walls of Rome"
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1850

Altar bowl with Tibetan inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Design for Various Decorations including Coriolanus at the Walls of Rome
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1850

Altar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 232

Eight Sacrificial Scenes
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1790-1795

Fish
William Merritt Chase · by 1910

Imposte. Vase et Autel Antique.
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Imposte. Vase et Autel Antique.
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1810

Three Designs for Altar Candlesticks for a Jesuit Church
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

Bowl with Fish
Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1300

Designs for Altar Candlesticks and Candle Brackets
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Bowl with Fish Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Chalice in Chaplain Kit used by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley
Artist not stated in the record · 1939-1944

Bowl with two fish
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1820
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. 161 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 428493 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-09 03:18 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.