OpenTwo 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 bitter melons and butterflies” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:59 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 bitter melons and butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Bowl and cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Service vessel with bamboo, plum blossoms, butterflies, and birds
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century
Bowl and cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Bowl with Arabic Proverb
Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–11th century
Tea Bowl and Saucer
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770
Punch Bowl
Gorham Manufacturing Company · 1901
Tea Bowl and Saucer
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770
Cup with butterflies and melons
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Tea Bowl and Saucer
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770
Saucer with butterflies and melons
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Tea Bowl and Saucer
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770
Pair of boxes with melons and butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Tea Bowl and Saucer
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770
Service vessel with bamboo, plum blossoms, butterflies, and birds
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century
Tea Bowl and Saucer
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770
Service vessel with bamboo, plum blossoms, butterflies, and birds
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century
Slop Bowl
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1770
Bowl with Foliate Rim
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 12th century
Bowl with Floral and Butterfly Design
Unidentified (Chinese) · 1700-1750
Still-Life with a Watermelon and Pomegranates
Paul Cézanne · 1900–1906
SUCRIER A CAFÉ
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805
Bitter Fare or Sweeps Regaling
Thomas Rowlandson · 1812
Design for a Plate or Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910
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. 31 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1537167 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 2026-09-01 19:59 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.