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 “Terracotta bowl with handle” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta bowl with handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1600 BCE

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BC

Terracotta bowl with wishbone handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1200 BCE

Berry Server with Leaf-form Bowl, Red Enameled Strawberries and Dragonfly
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Terracotta bowl with wishbone handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1450 BCE

Spade Shaped Server with Slug and Cat Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Terracotta bowl with vertical handle
Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th–early 5th century BCE

Sugar Sifter with Spider Web-Shaped Bowl and Monkey
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Terracotta covered bowl with one handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 450–400 BCE

Spoon with Enameled Grapes and Grapevine Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)
Polyteleia Painter · ca. 630–615 BCE

Serving Spoon with Twig and Lizard Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Two-handled Bowl
Cornelius Kierstede · 1700–1710

Spoon with Frog Jumping from Leaf Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1100 BCE

Spoon Adorned with a Rodent with Head Stuck Inside Clam Shell
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Potpourri bowl with cover
Artist not stated in the record · stoneware 18th century, mounts 1745–49

Dessert Spoon with Centipede on Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Terracotta deep bowl with vertical handles
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Dessert Spoon with Beetle on Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Group of Boston 00.348 · ca. 360–350 BCE

Dessert Spoon with Rolled Leaf Handle
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–500 BCE

Dessert Spoon with Toad
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
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. 4537 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 279347 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 2026-08-27 20:00 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.