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 “Sugarbowl and cover” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Sugarbowl and cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

Sugarbowl
Kuznetsoff Pottery, founded 1810 · late 19th century

Settee (one of a pair)
John Mayhew · 1769–71

Beverage service from Wormley's Hotel
George Linsenmayer · ca. 1885

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Pink Log Cabin Patterned Sugar Bowl
Artist not stated in the record

Armchair (one of a set of six)
John Mayhew · 1769–71

Lomatium gormanii (Howell) J.M. Coult. & Rose
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 2008

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Tennis racket cover used by Althea Gibson
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1960

Box in the shape of a flower
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Casket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Calendrier belgique, curieux et utile, contenant les evenemens historiques sur les jours de l'an, et les travaux à faire dans les jardins en chaque mois de l'année, la description des tableaux remarquables, que l'on trouve dans la ville de Gand, avec les noms des peintres pour l'annėe MDCCLXXII
Pierre de Goesin · 1772

Diplomatic Penalty Mail cover
Artist not stated in the record · February 11, 1942

L'office de l'Église en françois contenant les offices pour toute l'année, plusieurs prières tirées de l'écriture-sainte & des saints pères, les hymnes en vers françois, avec une instruction pour les fidèles
Catholic Church · 1792

Slate notebook used by Bishop Benjamin Tanner
Unidentified · 1898

Almanach de Normandie pour l'année bissext. 1788
La Veuve Besongne & Fils · [1787]

Letter box
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Almanach royal, année bissextile M.DCC.LXXXIV.
Laurent Charles d' Houry · 1783

Altar covers in Chaplain Kit used by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley
Artist not stated in the record · 1939-1944

De' ragguagli di Parnaso: Centuria prima-seconda
Johannes Blaeu · 1669

Box and cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–90
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. 14330 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. 1471513 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 05:49 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.