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 a Figure and Birds” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:47 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 a Figure and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

Bird Head
Artist not stated in the record · Date unknown

SOUPIÈRES ET CULLIÈRES.
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 2200–2000 BCE

Miniature: Seated Figure
Unknown · 18th century

Bird pendant
Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

Figure
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

Chinese figure with bird
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1727, mounts and flowers ca. 1750
![Crucifixion with the Four Evangelists [left]; Saint Bridget [right, above]; Hospital Scene [right, below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-7917_02-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Crucifixion with the Four Evangelists [left]; Saint Bridget [right, above]; Hospital Scene [right, below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

Bowl
Maya artist(s) · 500-600 CE

Design for a Fork and Two Spoons
Unknown · late 16th century

Yashoda with the Infant Krishna
Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Sugar Bowl
R. & W. Wilson, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, active ca. 1825 – ca. 1846 · 1825–1846

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Panel with images of four women
Unknown · 1610–40

Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

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

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

'Egyptian' Pattern Berry Spoon
Whiting Manufacturing Company, 1866 – 1926 · ca. 1875

Armor (Gusoku) with Box
Neo Masanobu 根尾正信 · 19th century; helmet bowl, early 18th century

A Winged Mer Hermaphrodite and Sketches for a Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · early 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. 37396 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. 3246896 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 2026-08-28 10:47 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.