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 “Silver phiale (libation bowl)” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Silver phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BC

Silver phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th or early 6th century BCE

Libation Bowl
Unidentified · 618-907

Silver phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Libation Bowl
Unidentified · 1600-1800

Silver phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2300–2000 BCE

Libation Bowl
Unidentified · 618-907

Silver phiale (libation bowl) with gilding
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Libation Bowl
Unidentified · 618-907

Gold phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Eurema phiale
Artist not stated in the record

Silver phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Eurema phiale
Artist not stated in the record

Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 250–200 BCE

Panel with Victory Celebration
William Pitts · 1880

Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 250–200 BCE

George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash
Artist not stated in the record · 1807

Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 250–200 BCE

Bell Krater
Artist not stated in the record · 350–300 BC

Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 250–200 BCE

Sugar Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1798

Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE
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. 74 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 122469 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 2026-08-28 12:52 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.