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. 12 shown for “Tripod Bird Bowl” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tripod Bird Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1810

Bowl
Nasca artist(s) · 1–400 CE

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860–66

Bowl
Maya artist(s) · 500-600 CE

Bowl
Abu Zayd al-Kashani · dated 583 AH/1187 CE

Iron tripod
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 575–550 BCE

Tripod Bowl with Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Tripod vessel
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–450 CE

Double bowl
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Bowl with Eagle
Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000
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. 579 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. 604456 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 13:53 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.