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. 23 shown for “Bowl Base with a Marriage Scene” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 03:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bowl Base with a Marriage Scene
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Birdcage with fishbowl
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

La Demande en Marriage
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

Bowl with The Virgin and the Unicorn and arms of Matthias Corvinus and Beatrice of Aragon
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1486–88

Design for clock
Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

The Marriage at Cana; Hagar and Ishmal; David and Goliath
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Wine Glass with Galloping Horse
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1789

The Marriage Feast at Cana
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

The Festival of Pan
Artist not stated in the record · 1648

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–500 BCE

Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BC

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

Glass garland bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855

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

Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent
Artist not stated in the record · late 1300s or early 1400s

Sugar Bowl with Battle Scenes (Bataillen-Malerei)
Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · 1870–1900

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Sugar Bowl, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820
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. 2459 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. 1906120 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-03 03:57 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.