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 “Mina'i Bowl with Abstract Pattern” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 03:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Mina'i Bowl with Abstract Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th–early 13th century
Coffee Cup
Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959 · 1966

Glass bowl decorated with geometric patterns
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Fragmentary base of a bowl surrounded by wave design
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Buff Ware Bowl with Geometric Patterns
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Fragment of a bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th century

Cup with Star
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Fragmentary base of a large bowl
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Bowl with Three Animals
Artist not stated in the record · 1100–1300

Fragment of a bowl
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Three-color Luster Bowl with Stylized Tree
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Fragmentary base of a bowl
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Bowl with Two Facing Peacocks
Artist not stated in the record · second–third quarter 10th century

Ice Cream Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

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

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

Clog-shaped tea bowl (kutsu-gata chawan) with plum blossoms and geometric patterns
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Two-Handled Sugar Bowl with Monogram and Diamond Lattice Pattern
Carl Thieme Potschappel Porcelain Manufactory, German, established 1872 · ca. 1901

Bowl decorated with phoenixes, clouds, and chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–20

Goblet with Applied Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–early 12th century

Bowl and cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

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

Covered Bowl with Diamond Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–35
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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 275838 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 03:24 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.