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 fish in water grasses” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:14 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 fish in water grasses
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Design for a Fountain
Artist not stated in the record · 1768

Large Oval Storage Basket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

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

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

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

Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog
Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1769

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

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662
Bowl with Central Fish Motif
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Water color; A woman selling roasted corn
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1827

Bowl with two fish
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Le loup et l'agneau
Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · ca. 1802

Dish with pine trees
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1884–90

Square Dish with Spring Flowers and Grasses
Ogata Kenzan · 18th century

St John the Baptist in the Wilderness
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1588

Reliquary Statuette of Saint Christopher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1375–1425

Arctagrostis latifolia (R. Br.) Griseb.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1953

Cosmetic Dish in the Shape of a Bolti Fish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Footed Dish from the Service Rousseau
Felix Bracquemond, France, 1833 – 1914 · ca. 1867

Plate with fish
Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century

Menu for AGIP restaurant in Rome
Artist not stated in the record · 1960
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. 513 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. 7464463 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 16:14 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.