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 dragon handles” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:55 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
Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50
![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 with dragon handles
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Pickle Dish and Spear
Wood & Hughes, New York, U.S.A., 1845 – 1899 · 1871–1899
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Basket, lid and dish
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · 19th century

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

Basket-Shaped Dessert Dish with Boat Scene
John Ridgway, English, ca. 1785 – 1860 · ca. 1835

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century

Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1735

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Covered Butter Dish (One of a Pair)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1735

Cup with dragon handles and saucer
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Covered Dish (with Tray)
Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838 · late 19th century

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

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

Chafing Dish
Peter Van Dyck · ca. 1725

Candy dish
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Dish with dragon
Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1700

Sweetmeats Dish
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1813–1840

Cup with dragon handles
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Écuelle
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1766

Jar with dragon handles
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Dish and cover
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1880
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. 366 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. 312343 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-28 18:55 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.