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. 14 shown for “Terracotta footed bowl” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:59 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 footed bowl
Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century BCE

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

Terracotta footed bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 750–600 BCE

Bowl and lid
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Terracotta footed bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 650–625 BCE

Terracotta footed bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 650 BCE

Terracotta footed bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550 BCE

Terracotta footed bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 625–600 BCE

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

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

Terracotta footed dishie
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Terracotta bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Terracotta stemmed bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Terracotta conical footed bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1200 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. 3887 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. 42647 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:59 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.