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 Fish” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 00:28 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 Central Fish Motif
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Footed Dish from the Service Rousseau
Felix Bracquemond, France, 1833 – 1914 · ca. 1867

Bowl with Fish
Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1300

Small Serving Fork with Tines Skewering Fish
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Altar Bowl with Fish
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash
Artist not stated in the record · 1807

Two-Handled Bowl with Fish
Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1430

"Assyrian Head" Pattern Fish Serving Fork
Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898 · 1885–86

Bowl with Fish Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls
Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

Bowl with fish and lotuses
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Ornament Designs for use on Teapots and Bowls
Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century · late 17th–early 18th century

Bowl with two fish
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

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

Armor (Gusoku)
Saotome Ietada · 16th and 18th centuries

Ladle With Spout and Dragonfly Terminal
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Glass fragments of bowl decorated with mosaic fish
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century CE

Spoon Adorned with a Rodent with Head Stuck Inside Clam Shell
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Spoon with Enameled Grapes and Grapevine Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Serving Spoon with Twig and Lizard Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Fish
William Merritt Chase · by 1910

Spoon with Frog Jumping from Leaf Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
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. 7028 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 427817 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-09 00:28 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.