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 Three Friends of Winter” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:38 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 Three Friends of Winter
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Three Friends of Winter
Helen Hyde, born Lima, NY 1868-died Pasadena, CA 1919 · 1913

Dish with the Three Friends of Winter
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–early 17th century

Palette-Shaped Butter Dish
Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898 · ca. 1880

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

Dish and cover
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1880

Dish
Vienna · ca. 1735–40

Dish and cover
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1880

Dish
Simon Edgell · 1713–42

Dish with the Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

A covered dish for ice cream of porcelain
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Dish
Vienna · 1722/23

The Sun, the Hours, and the Seasons, for Palazzo Gessi, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

Dish
The Art Crafts Shop · ca. 1904

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Birds in wintry trees
Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 16th-17th century

Footed Dish with Equestrian Hunting Scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1884–90

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

The Compliments of the Season
Thomas Stevens, English, 1828–1888 · 1871

Winter
Charles Conway · 1855
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. 1804 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. 2898745 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 11:38 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.