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 rim, handle, and upper body of a bowl” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 20:23 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 rim, handle, and upper body of a bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2300 BCE

George III sterling silver sugar bowl with interior gold wash
Artist not stated in the record · 1807

Two-handled Bowl
Cornelius Kierstede · 1700–1710

Design for Pitcher and Basin
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–85

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

Designs for Two Ewers and a Swing-Handle Bowl
Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · mid- 16th century

Terracotta rim, body and handle from a cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2300 BCE

George III sterling silver cream jug with interior gold wash
William Fountain, English · 1806

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Design for a Sugar Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Design for a Sugar Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

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

White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family
S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853 · late 19th-early 20th century

Terracotta rim and upper body fragment from a straight-sided cup with tortoiseshell ripple motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1525 BCE

Sugar Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

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

Design for a Water Kettle with Stand
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1820–30

Bowl
Maya artist(s) · 500-600 CE

George III sterling silver tea pot
Artist not stated in the record · 1800

Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

A Cantharus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

Terracotta two-handled vase
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Coffee Service
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1903
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. 3022 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. 4077189 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-10 20:23 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.