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 scene of Duke Ling of Jin” — 52 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:53 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 scene of Duke Ling of Jin
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

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

Dish depicting The Death of Saul
Medici Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1575–80

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Still Life of Grapes and Peaches
Panfilo Nuvolone · ca. 1617

Dish
Herculaneum Pottery, English, 1796 – 1841 · ca. 1810

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
Sesson Shūkei · 1550s

Dish
Olérys-Laugier Factory, France, founded 1738 · ca. 1775

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Andrea Solario · ca. 1507–9

Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger
Aelbert Bouts · ca. 1500

Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon
Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612 · late 16th century

The Last Supper
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1525–28

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

Wangchuan Villa
Wang Yuanqi · dated 1711

Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

The Drunken SiIenus: Design for the "Tazza Farnese"
Annibale Carracci · 1599–1600

Interior of the Duke's Theater in Dorset Gardens, London, a Scene from Elkannah Settle's "The Empress of Morocco"
Richard Sawyer · 1809

Old Trees, Level Distance
Guo Xi · ca. 1080

Frontispiece of Soliman, Second State
Jacques Callot, French, 1592–1635 · 1620

The Stockbridge Cup
Henry Hugh Armstead · 1870

PLATS OVALE
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

PLATS ROND
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2902630 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-05 07:53 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.