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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 “Ladle with Shell-Shaped Bowl” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ladle
Joseph Richardson Jr. · 1777–90
Ladle with Shell-Shaped Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1780
Ladle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850
Ladle With Spout and Dragonfly Terminal
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
Bronze ladle
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE
Spouted Punch Ladle with Elongated Wood Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 1731
Potpourri bowl with cover
Artist not stated in the record · stoneware 18th century, mounts 1745–49
Condiment Spoon with Applied Shell Medallion Terminal
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Ladle
Samuel Edwards · 1745–60
Spoon Adorned with a Rodent with Head Stuck Inside Clam Shell
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
Bronze simpulum (ladle)
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st–early 2nd century CE
"Assyrian Head" Pattern Punch Ladle
Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898 · 1885–86
Bronze kyathos (ladle) with duck-head terminal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400 BCE
Sugar Bowl and Stand
Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · ca. 1770
Ladle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd–7th century CE
George III silver sugar sifter ladle
Artist not stated in the record · 1815
Ladle
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880
Terracotta scuttle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1190 BCE
Spade Shaped Server with Slug and Cat Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
Bronze ladle terminating in two ducks' heads
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE
Spoon with Enameled Grapes and Grapevine Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
Silver kyathos (cup-shaped ladle)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE
Serving Spoon with Twig and Lizard Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
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. 86 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1552 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 08:04 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.