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. 22 shown for “Bowl with bosses and lotus pattern and demotic weight on rim” — 58 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:27 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 bosses and lotus pattern and demotic weight on rim
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Ladle with Shell-Shaped Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1780

Bowl with acorn bosses at shoulder, lotus pattern beneath, and rosette on bottom, and with inscribed weight
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

Bowl with bosses and petals
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family
S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853 · late 19th-early 20th century

Marsh Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Lotus Bowl
Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965 · 1912–1917

Bowl decorated with phoenixes, clouds, and chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1720

Dish with Two Intertwined Dragons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Covered Bowl with Diamond Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–35

Bowl with female busts in medallions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–4th century CE

Variety
Ridgeways, ca. 1879 – 1920 · ca. 1879–85

Glass phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–early 4th century BCE

George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash
Artist not stated in the record · 1807

Earflare with ritual procession
Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE

Porringer
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th or early 19th century

Earflare with ritual procession
Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE

Bowl and stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–30

Beaker with Relief-cut Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Tankard
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1725–30
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 1986649 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:27 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.