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 Three Animals” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 04:53 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 Three Animals
Artist not stated in the record · 1100–1300

Standing Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 1847

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Bowl and cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

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

Design in Three Views for Mahogany and Inlay Sideboard
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

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

Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl with Eagle Finial
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1800

Folding Fork with Attachable Spoon Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Bowl
Maya artist(s) · 500-600 CE

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

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Three Designs for Candlesticks
Artist not stated in the record · 1803

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1585

Wine Glass with King David and Jonathan
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775
Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Slotted Spoon with Scalloped Edge
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830–60

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

Designs for Furniture and Ornament
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)
Polyteleia Painter · ca. 630–615 BCE

Surtout de Table (Table centerpiece)
Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843 · ca. 1810

Beaker with birds and animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Chandelier
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–25
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. 2029 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. 1417752 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-07 04:53 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.