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. 16 shown for “Bowl decorated with linked ibex horns” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:44 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 decorated with linked ibex horns
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5300–4300 BCE

Design for an Oil-burning Pendant Lamp
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420
Folding spoon
Gavet Coutelier, France · 1809–19

Ewer and stand (présentoir)
Martin Gizl · 1758

fork
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Storage jar decorated with mountain goats
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4000–3600 BCE

Terracotta bowl with handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1600 BCE

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)
Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1752–53

Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, and Torah Ark
Artist not stated in the record · 300–350

Kylix
Heidelberg Painter, Greek, active 575 - 555 BC · 6th century BC

Bowl Lyre
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Terracotta bowl with wishbone handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1450 BCE

Bowl with radial design of ibex horns
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4500–4100 BCE

Ibex beaker with gilded silver mounts
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Spoon with carved ibex decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 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. 130 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. 335670 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 2026-09-03 10:44 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.