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 “Dish green glazed with floral medallion and foliate rim” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:21 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 green glazed with floral medallion and foliate rim
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century
![Sweetmeat Dish, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-185548_02.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Sweetmeat Dish
Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1686–1701

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Sidewall
Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA · 1905–1915

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

Sidewall
Cresswell & Washburn Ltd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1880 - 1900 · 1905–1915

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–mid-16th century

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

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

Frieze
Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915

Footed Dish with Foliate Rim in Imitation of Chinese Porcelain
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–80

Sidewall
Cresswell & Washburn Ltd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1880 - 1900 · 1905–1915

Dish with Floral Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1545–60

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

Dish with Floral Designs
Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1761

Small Dish (Kozara) with Three Jars
Artist not stated in the record · 1680–90s

Frieze
Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA · 1905–1915

Dish with Two Intertwined Dragons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Dish with Gingko Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Frieze
Potter Wall Paper Mills · 1905–1915

Blue-Ground Dish with Floral Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915
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. 70 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. 1595822 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-03 05:21 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.