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. 15 shown for “Bowl Lyre” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 09:43 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 Lyre
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Danaë Painter · ca. 460 BCE

Two Candlesticks
Artist not stated in the record · 1625–50

Two-Sided Plaque with Gazelles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–664 BCE

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

Designs for Furniture and Ornament
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

Design for a Candlestick with a Clock
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · late 18th century

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1815

Bacchus, Apollo and Mnemosine; Minerva with Trophies
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1798–1801

Twenty-Four Putti, Decoration for the Dinning Room, Villa Aldini, Montmorency, France
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812–13

Women Riding Sea Centaurs, Villa Aldini, Montmorency, France
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

Ceiling Design
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

Ceiling Design
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

Monument for an Accademia della Pace
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20
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. 43 matched · 24 examined · 21 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 27713 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 09:43 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.