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 Scroll” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 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 Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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

Dish, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Dish, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

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

Pickle Dish and Spear
Wood & Hughes, New York, U.S.A., 1845 – 1899 · 1871–1899

Tankard with Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Textile
Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1875–1941 · late 19th century

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

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

Peony and Bamboo
Ike (Tokuyama) Gyokuran · ca. 1768

Dessert Dish
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 19th century

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

Dish, ladle and tray
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1780

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Lobed Dish with Ganymede, Jupiter, and Sphinxes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

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

Covered Box on Stand
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

Large Dish (Ōzara) with Lion and Peony
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640s

Napkin
Artist not stated in the record · 1680s
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. 231 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. 255502 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 11:45 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.