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 “Small Dish (Kozara) with Chinese Male Figure” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Small Dish (Kozara) with Chinese Male Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1620–30s

Plate Depicting Hendrik Durven, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (VOC), and His Wife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Male and Female Shinto Deities
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Dish (One of Six)
Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770

Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Lion (one of a pair)
Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Dish (One of Six)
Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770

Dish depicting The Death of Saul
Medici Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1575–80

Dish (One of Six)
Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770

Bowl with two boys and foliage
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Dish (One of Six)
Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770

Brighella on a pedestal
Meissen Manufactory · 1710–13

Dish (One of Six)
Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770
Pear-Shaped Bottle with a Bullock Design
Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Dish (One of Six)
Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 – 1812 · ca. 1770

Lioness (one of a pair)
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1732

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Ewer (Brocca)
Medici Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1575–87

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–99

Food warmer with insert
Vienna · ca. 1730–35

Clock and key
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Dish with two boys
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Tomb dish
Artist not stated in the record · early 1st-early 3rd 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. 39 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. 1000016 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-28 00:33 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.