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 with Deer and Phoenix Motifs” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:39 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 Deer and Phoenix Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Rocaille Ornament Design
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · after 1736

Tile with Image of Phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Design for Woven Silk and Embroidery, with Lion attacking a Deer (recto) and Woman swallowed by Fish (verso)
Unknown · late 14th century

Bowl with deer
Artist not stated in the record · late 8th–9th century

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–90
Bowl with Central Fish Motif
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Design for two andirons
Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1450

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Helmets, Swords, Bows and Arrows
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1830

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century
Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

"Niagara Falls"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Bowl
Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1877–85

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1856

Sugar bowl
Thomas Cains · 1812–27

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–mid-19th century

Bowl with Eagle
Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1845–1855

Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

sugar bowl
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. 581 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. 1544169 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 12:39 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.