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. 23 shown for “Bowl with a Horseman” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 06:36 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 Horseman Spearing a Serpent
Artist not stated in the record · late 1300s or early 1400s

Goblet with Hunting Scene
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bowl with a Horseman
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century, with early 20th century additions

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

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

View of the Chateau of Chantilly (Upper Plate)
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1680–1703

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1845–50

Glass garland bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

A Hunt Scene
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1630

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Trimming
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Bowl
Nin'ami Dōhachi (Takahashi Dōhachi II) · 19th century

Lekythos
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century B.C.

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

LE CHASTEAU DE ST. MAUR
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

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

Back of the South Dome from the Nevada Trail, Yosemite
Thomas Moran, American, b. Britain, 1837–1926 · 1891

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

LA CHAMBRE DES COMPTES
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–500 BCE

LE BASSIN DE SATURNE
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1672–1703

LE BASSIN DE FLORE
Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1675–1703
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. 4776 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. 1877864 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 06:36 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.