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 “Tray with Chinese characters, bats, and fruits” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 04:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tray with Chinese characters, bats, and fruits
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

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Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pipa (琵琶 )
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

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Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Coffee and tea service (déjeuner chinois réticulé)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1855–61

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Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Tray with dragon and Chinese characters
Artist not stated in the record · 1522–1566

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Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Brush washer in the shape of a peach
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Fruit dish and tray
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

Tray Stand
Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century (after 1342)
Pineapple quilt gifted to Lucy Hardiman Roundtree from Lydia Hardiman
Lydia Hardiman, American · 1885

Square tray with birds in a garden
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Designs for Braziers and Trays, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)
Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550 · 1540–1560

Rectangular tray with fish chime, treasures, and clouds
Artist not stated in the record

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Prunes et Pruneaux (Plums and Prunes) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1824

Reciting Poetry in a Garden
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 17th century

Bridges and Bats on Lattice
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Apricot
Wu Xizai · 19th century

Tureen and Stand
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1775

Vessel with throne scene
Chamá artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Shoulao
Chantilly · ca. 1735–40

Mantel Clock Case Design
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1738
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. 41 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1528831 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 04:23 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.