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 “Glass bowl fragment with gold leaf and painted decoration” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Glass bowl fragment with gold leaf and painted decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century CE

Macaroni Server with Gold Plated Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

Nécessaire (one of a pair)
John Barbot · ca. 1760

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Crib of the Infant Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

"Medallion" Pattern Serving Spoon
William Gale Jr., American, b. 1825 · ca. 1866

Armor (Gusoku) with Box
Neo Masanobu 根尾正信 · 19th century; helmet bowl, early 18th century

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

Miniature collector's cabinet
Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Pleated fan and case
J. Creven · late 19th–early 20th century

Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72

Design for a Sugar Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Dagger with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · 1605–27

Fragment of a Footed Bowl with Medici Family Arms
Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy) · ca. 1513-1534

Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée)
Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1761

Glass stemware with gold decoration from Mae's Millinery Shop
Unidentified · 1941-1994

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)
Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1752–53

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1785

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

Sugar Bowl and Stand
Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · mid- 18th century

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Pair of Wine Bottle Coolers (Seaux à Demi-Bouteille)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1782

Desk (bonheur du jour)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1770

Mosaic Glass Bowl
Unidentified (Roman Empire) · 1st century BC-1st century AD
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. 1557 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. 1577708 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 18:16 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.