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 Red and Black Vegetal Motifs” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:27 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 Red and Black Vegetal Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century
Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

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

Bowl with Arabic Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century
"Dentelle"
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century
Bowl with Central Fish Motif
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

sugar bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Plate
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Design for an Andiron
Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · early 19th century

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

Design for clock
Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

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

Écuelle
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca. 1745–50

Bowl
W. E. Hentschel · 1913

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Group of Boston 00.348 · ca. 360–350 BCE

Sidewall - fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1814–24

Black and Blue Painted Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Design for a Sugar Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Bowl with Deer and Phoenix Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Recto: Design for a Bottle with a Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600
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. 853 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. 1581261 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 2026-09-03 10:27 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.