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. 17 shown for “Covered Bowl or Box” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Box
Wilhelm Krüger · 18th century

Covered Bowl or Box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–38

Sugar Bowl and Cover
James Goodwin, British, active London (entered 1706) · 1726–1727

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
Nin'ami Dōhachi (Takahashi Dōhachi II) · 19th century

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

Bowl
Maya artist(s) · 500-600 CE

Sugar Bowl
Alcora Ceramic Factory, Spanish, 1727 – 1858 · ca. 1740

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria
Artist not stated in the record · 700s

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

Ewer of Zenobius
Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Terracotta pyxis (box)
Penthesilea Painter · ca. 465–460 BCE

Royal processions, ceremonies and entertainments
Court of King Mindon or Thibaw, or associated workshops · 1870s–1880s

Terracotta covered bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–400 BCE
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. 930 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. 392898 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 11:36 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.