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. 16 shown for “Fragment of a Glass Dish” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragment of a Glass Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Fragment of a dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Fragment of dish
Artist not stated in the record · 9th-10th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 16th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–99

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

Mosaic Glass Bowl
Unidentified (Roman Empire) · 1st century BC-1st century AD

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Dish
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1725

Dish
Vienna · ca. 1735–40

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

Dish
Medici Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1575–87

Glass garland bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Dish with Abraham and Melchizedek
Hans of Landshut · 1498

Glass gladiator cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE
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. 5431 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. 3866178 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 21:48 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.