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 decorative medallions” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Sugarbowl and cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Bowl with decorative medallions
Artist not stated in the record

"Medallion" Pattern Serving Spoon
William Gale Jr., American, b. 1825 · ca. 1866

Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–1050

"Medallion" Pattern Sifting Spoon
Ball, Black & Co. · ca. 1865

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

Sugar Bowl with Rose Medallion
Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1747 · early 19th century

Medallion with return from a spring outing
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Footed bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

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

Sugar Bowl, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810–15

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Five chalices
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

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

Condiment Spoon with Applied Shell Medallion Terminal
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Two chalices
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

Gold and glass bracelet with central medallion
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century BCE

Design for a sedan chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1773

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 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. 2253 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. 296093 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 02:47 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.