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 “High-Tin Bronze Bowl” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
High-Tin Bronze Bowl
Abu Nasr al-Naqqash · 11th century

Bronze Old Silla Dynasty Era Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

High-Tin Bronze Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Surtout de Table (Table centerpiece)
Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843 · ca. 1810

Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century

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

Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca. 1745–50

spoon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Bronze Old Silla Dynasty Era Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–90

Potpourri bowl with cover
Artist not stated in the record · stoneware 18th century, mounts 1745–49

Goblet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790–1810

Silver-gilt bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 725–675 BCE

Goblet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Bronze footbath with its stand
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th–early 4th century BCE

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

Sprite
Donatello · 1432

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 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. 511 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 75 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-29 02:19 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.