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 “Buff Ware Bowl with Geometric Patterns” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Buff Ware Bowl with Geometric Patterns
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Pattern No. 375 Teaspoon with Geometric Enamel Handle
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1910
Bowl
Nin'ami Dōhachi (Takahashi Dōhachi II) · 19th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

Buff Ware Fragment with Animal Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

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

Bowl with Geometric Rosette
Artist not stated in the record · 1100–1150

Sweetmeat Glass
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–75
Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1824

Clog-shaped tea bowl (kutsu-gata chawan) with plum blossoms and geometric patterns
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Tropics
Willets Mfg. Co., active 1879 – ca. 1912 · ca. 1875–85

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

Arita ware shallow individual serving bowl with scalloped rim
Artist not stated in the record · 1650-1670

Glass bowl decorated with geometric patterns
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

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

Animal-Spouted Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Tea bowl in mishima style, Karatsu ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1630-1650
Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Sampler
Maria Manula Lobe y Cantabrana · 1801

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

Korakuen ware tea bowl
Yasuke Kyuraku II · circa 1830-40

Bowl with Green, Yellow, and Brown Splashed Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Tea bowl, Karatsu or Tsushima ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1625-1675
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. 430 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 279353 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 05:00 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.