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 two boys and lotuses” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:44 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 two boys and lotuses
Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Design of a Centerpiece
Artist not stated in the record · 1827-1835

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

Sculptured Frieze with Amphora between Two Half Figures of Boys Pouring Water from Pitcher into Bowl
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th century

Statuette of the Child Amenemhab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Design for a Centerpiece
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1827-1835

Two-handled Bowl
Cornelius Kierstede · 1700–1710

Children Bowling
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759

Bowl with fish and lotuses
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware
Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

Bowl with Lotuses
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Design for a Baptismal Font
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1775

Bowl with two boys and foliage
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

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

Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Two Magi and Two Boys, plate 14 from the from Scherzi di Fantasia
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

Jar with carp in lotus pond
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Two-Handled Sugar Bowl with Monogram and Diamond Lattice Pattern
Carl Thieme Potschappel Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1872 · ca. 1901
Footed Bowl with Lotuses
Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th century
Case for Set of Ten Gilt Demitasse Spoons
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1880

Bowl with boys and grapevines
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Two-Handled Sugar Bowl with Landscapes
The Sweetser Company, New York, New York, active 1900 – 1915 · 1900–1915

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Ship-Building, Gloucester Harbor, from Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1873, p. 900
Harper & Bros., New York, New York, USA · 1873
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. 2441 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. 1544681 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 02:44 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.