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. 20 shown for “Covered dish” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:36 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Covered dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1835–40

Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1735

Covered dish
Tucker and Hemphill · 1831–37

Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1735

Covered dish
Ralph Bagnall Beech · 1851–57

Covered Dish in the Form of a Red Cabbage or Tulip
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1790

Covered Dish
John T. Vansant Manufacturing Company · ca. 1883

Covered dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Covered sweetmeat dish
Antonio Salviati · probably late 19th century

A covered dish for ice cream of porcelain
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 661–750

Tray for a Covered Dish
Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838 · late 19th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Covered Dish (with Tray)
Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838 · late 19th century

Covered Punch Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1745–55

Elevation and Plan for a Side Table with Covered Dishes, Urns and Cup
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1780

Covered tureen
Dihl et Guérhard · ca. 1800–1815

Design for a tea-pot, verso: design for a covered dish and bowl
Thomas Fletcher · 1800–1866

Covered Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

Covered Dish
Challinor, Taylor and Company · 1870–90
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. 455 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. 41744 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 13:36 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.