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 auspicious symbols” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:26 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 auspicious symbols
Artist not stated in the record

Tray, from a Lemonade Set
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

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

Lemonade Set
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

Box decorated with auspicious symbols
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Daoist priest's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Man's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

Altar bowl with Tibetan inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Robe for a statue
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Boy with water buffalo
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Vase decorated with auspicious animals
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Six Immortal Poets
Kajikawa School · 19th century

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Robe (Kosode) with Mandarin Orange Tree and Auspicious Characters
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, and Torah Ark
Artist not stated in the record · 300–350

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Bowl with dragon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th 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. 473 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 274288 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 06:26 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.