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 “Bowl depicting a Man holding a Cup and a Flowering Branch” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:58 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 depicting a Man holding a Cup and a Flowering Branch
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Design for a Candlestick
Artist not stated in the record · 1800

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Man with Arrow
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

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

Bacchanal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Goblet Commemorating the Seven United Provinces and Prince William IV, Governor of the Netherlands
Artist not stated in the record · 1747

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

A Man with a Bird
Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778 · 1760-1775

Coffeepot
Meissen Manufactory · manufactured ca. 1715–20; decorated ca. 1728–30

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–60

Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers
Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Standing Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 1847

Reciting Poetry in a Garden
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 17th century

A Family in a Landscape
Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778 · 1760-1775

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Photographic postcard of a man in wooly chaps holding a coil of rope
Artist not stated in the record · 1917-1930

Bowl with a Figure and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Figure of a Chinese Man or Servant Holding a Cup and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1745

Textile Fragment Depicting Figures in a Landscape
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1008 AH/1599–1600 CE

Cup and Saucer
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Design for Covered Cups, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)
Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560
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. 283 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2806891 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-28 12:58 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.