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. 23 shown for “Rim fragment of a bowl or cup” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Rim fragment of a bowl or cup
Artist not stated in the record · 200 BCE-100 CE

Glass garland bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Rim fragment of a bowl or cup
Artist not stated in the record · 200 BCE-100 CE

Glass gladiator cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE

Rim fragment of a bowl or cup
Artist not stated in the record · 200 BCE-100 CE

Goblet with Personifications of Cyprus, Rome, Constantinople, and Alexandria
Artist not stated in the record · 700s

Porcelain Cup, Saucer, and Glass Beaker with Box
Buen Retiro Manufactory, Spanish, 1759 – 1808 · ca. 1803–1808

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Fragment of a cup rim
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE-100 CE

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730

Fragmentary Lotiform Chalice
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–1054 BCE or ca. 945–924 BCE

Standing Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 1847

Bowl
Maya artist(s) · 500-600 CE

Cup and saucer
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1810

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

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

Tea Bowl and Saucer (One of a Pair)
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

The Spiritual Master Padmasambhava
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Tea Bowl and Saucer (One of a Pair)
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent
Artist not stated in the record · late 1300s or early 1400s
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. 4959 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. 3891209 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 19:27 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.