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 with painted decoration” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Footed bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

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

Mechanical table
Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

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

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

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890–1900

Mechanical table (Table mécanique)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1778

Bowls
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

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

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

Goblet with Striped Bowl
Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy) · 1890s-1910s

Miniature collector's cabinet
Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Glass bowl with painted decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1770

Puzzle glass
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1773

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
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. 2064 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. 375648 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-04 07:33 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.