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 “Platter with a Fish” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 21:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Platter with a Fish
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Design for a Tureen and a Platter
Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748 · 1740–48

Platter
Bernard Palissy · last quarter 16th century

Geisha Holding Fish on Platter
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Platter
Artist not stated in the record · 1745–55

A Pair of Platters
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Platter (One of a Pair)
Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1784–1806

Large Platter with Fish
Victor Barbizet · ca. 1855–1875

Platter
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745

Fish
William Merritt Chase · by 1910

Platter (One of a Pair)
Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1784–1806

Smallsword with Scabbard
Master GG · hallmarked 1773–74

L'Eau
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782

Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Design for a Platter
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Platter with Birds (One of a Pair)
Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1760

Platter
Willets Manufacturing Company · 1883–85

Platter with Birds (One of a Pair)
Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1760

Platter
Union Porcelain Works · 1885

Fruit Platter (One of a Pair)
Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1749 – 1760 · 1755–1760

Platter
Union Porcelain Works · 1885

Platter
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740
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. 1508 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. 1983386 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 2026-09-05 21:40 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.