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 “Small Lobed Bowl” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 16:04 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 Lobed Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century

Lobed ladle with floral scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th-early 8th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Double-Handled Porringer (Écuelle)
Johann Erhard Heuglin II, German, 1687 – 1757 · ca. 1725

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

Footed Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Sugar Bowl, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820
Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

A Pair of Dishes
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

Bowl
Fernand Thesmar · 1903

Lotus Bowl
Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965 · 1912–1917

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1856

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

Sugar Bowl and Stand, from a Dessert Service (Sucrier et son Plateau)
Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789 · ca. 1735

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

spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Tea Bowl and Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1735–1745

Bowl
Nasca artist(s) · 1–400 CE

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

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

Fragment from a bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1st 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. 964 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 103962 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-30 16:04 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.