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. 21 shown for “Dish, fish” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dish, fish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Haddock
Emil Carlsen, born Copenhagen, Denmark 1853-died New York City 1932 · 1886

Fish dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Palette-Shaped Butter Dish
Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898 · ca. 1880
Bowl with Central Fish Motif
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1884–90

Dish with fish in water grasses
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Footed Dish from the Service Rousseau
Felix Bracquemond, France, 1833 – 1914 · ca. 1867

Glass flask in the form of a fish
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Myself in the Mirror
Oliver Chaffee, born Detroit, MI 1881-died Asheville, NC 1944 · ca. 1926

Cosmetic Dish in the Shape of a Bolti Fish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Fisher Children
Charles W. Hawthorne, born Lodi, IL 1872-died Baltimore, MD 1930 · ca. 1902

Tell el-Yahudiya-ware fish vessel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1550 B.C.

PLATS OVALE
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Plate with fish
Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century

PLATS ROND
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Two-Handled Bowl with Fish
Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1430

PLATS ROND
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Sea Bream (Tai) on Nabeshima Porcelain Dish, Sake Cup on Stand, and Painting of a Peony
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai · ca. 1820

Bowl with two fish
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Large Platter with Fish
Victor Barbizet · ca. 1855–1875
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. 121 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. 171546 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 16:17 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.