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. 12 shown for “Bowl with dragons amid waves” — 40 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

SUCRIERS DE SERVICE
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Plate
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Water Nymph and Horse
Whiting Manufacturing Company, 1866 – 1926 · ca. 1900

Camels and Riders with Storm-Tossed Ship
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April–March 1868

Vase
Maria Longworth Nichols, American, 1849–1932 · 1879–1880

Knife with Axe Shaped Blade and Dragon
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Panels
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Design for a Decorative Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Design for a Decorative Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Fragment of border
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Design for a Salt or Pepper Cellar
Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822 · ca. 1800
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 322335 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 02:32 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.