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 with Pomegranates” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:16 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 Pomegranates
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

A blue glass dish filled with fruit
Artist not stated in the record · likely 18th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50

Still Life with Fruit
Severin Roesen, born Cologne, Germany 1815-died after 1872 · 1852

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

Basket of Blossoms and Leaves with Pomegranates on Earth
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

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

Designs for Flowers: White Muscade Rose, Pomegranate Flower
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

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

Cavagnole
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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

Textile
Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA · 1915

Dish
Absalmon Day · ca. 1794–1800

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

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

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–17th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

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

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
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. 3326 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. 253089 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 05:16 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.