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. 23 shown for “Dish with Peony” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:19 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 with Peony
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Napkin
Artist not stated in the record · 1735–40

Dish with Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Flower Study, Peonies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Dish with Peony Design
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th century

Red Peonies
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 19th–20th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50

Study of Pale Pink Peonies
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

Dish with Peonies
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Study of Peonies
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

Dish with Peonies
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–early 15th century

Study of Peony Stalk with Blossoms
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

Bottle with Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century

Peonies in the Wind with Kakemono Borders
John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910 · ca. 1893

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Study of Peonies
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Peonies and Ropes
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Six Shell-Shaped Dishes
Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–500 BCE

Dish
Absalmon Day · ca. 1794–1800

Dish (One of Six)
Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770
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. 3396 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 253034 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-27 14:19 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.