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 with Buddhist Assembly” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:10 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 with Buddhist Assembly
Artist not stated in the record

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)
Artist not stated in the record · 482

Bowl with imaginary composite flowers
Artist not stated in the record

Green Corn Dance, Hidatsa
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835-1837

Lotus bowl with Buddhist figures
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Pair of Cake Tongs With Caterpillar
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

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

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Kannon)
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th century

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

Covered Box on Stand
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1319

Standing bodhisattvas with monks, Pratyekabuddhas, lions, and apasaras
Artist not stated in the record · 557-581

Bowl with two boys and lotuses
Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Bowl with decorative medallions
Artist not stated in the record

Sugar Sifter with Spider Web-Shaped Bowl and Monkey
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Bowl with wheel-cut facets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–7th century CE

Berry Server with Leaf-form Bowl, Red Enameled Strawberries and Dragonfly
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 16th century

Buddhist altarpiece
Artist not stated in the record · 597

Helmet of Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century

Dessert Spoon with Lizard and Moth
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Sugar bowl
Tiffany & Co. · ca. 1880
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. 1195 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 273146 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 23:10 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.