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 “Lobed bowl, Minai'i ("enameled") ware” — 56 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 06:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lobed bowl, Minai'i ("enameled") ware
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

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

Bowl, Mina'i ("enameled") ware
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Shiga ware cylindrical tea bowl in Oribe style
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1868

Bowl, Mina'i ("enameled") ware
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Kyoto ware tea bowl for the New Year, with three impressed seals reading "Shuhei"
Ogata Shuhei (1788-1839) · early 19th century

Bowl, Minai'i ("enameled") ware
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Tea Bowl and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1735–1745

Bowl, Mina'i ("enameled") ware
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Tea bowl with design of autumn grasses
Kashu Mimpei (1796-1871) · mid 19th century

Bowl with Courtly and Astrological Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Teapot and lid
Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810 · late 19th century

Faceted Basin, Mina'i ("enameled") ware
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Sugar Bowl and Stand, from a Dessert Service (Sucrier et son Plateau)
Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789 · ca. 1735

Bowl with a Horseman
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century, with early 20th century additions

Tea bowl with reserve design of fans
Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77) · mid-17th century

Pierced Blue Pot with Animals and Vegetal Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter 11th or 12th century

Satsuma ware serving bowl, Ryumonji kilns
Artist not stated in the record · 1790-1860

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Basket
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Fragment of a Mina'i Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

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

Fragment of a Mina'i Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

A Pair of Dishes
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th 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. 16 matched · 16 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. 36960 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-07 06:38 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.