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 “Wash Basin” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wash basin
J. Eberly and Company · 1892–1903

Wash Basin
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Basin
Master Potter A · ca. 1650

Elevation and Plan of Wash Basin and Mirror in Carrara Marble
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Basin
Symon Owen · 1610–11
![Cuvette pour le Roy [Design for the King's Wash Basin], pl. 56 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-26807_02-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Cuvette pour le Roy [Design for the King's Wash Basin], pl. 56 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Basin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2323–2150 BCE

Linanthus jonesii (A. Gray) Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1969

Wash Basin
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1799

Washwomen with Flowers in their Hair, Barranquilla, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 1-9, 1853

Wash Basin
United States Pottery Company · 1849–58

Phlox hoodii Richardson
Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 2019

Wash Basin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Encelia frutescens (A. Gray) A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Nov 2012

Ritual Wash Basin (Ashitsuki-darai)
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

The Holy Family and a Female Saint
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

Basin
Marc Bazille · 1745–46

Three Angels with Instruments of the Passion
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

Basin
Léopold Antoine · 1727–29

La Vivandiere à la Grecque
Artist not stated in the record · 1771

Basin
Christophe-François Lacompart · 1728–29

Mentzelia desertorum (Davidson) H.J. Thomps. & J.F. Macbr.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1958

Plate with the Arms of Blanche of Navarre
Artist not stated in the record · 1427–38

Eriocoma nelsonii (Scribn.) Romasch.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1953
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. 77 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. 95241 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-02 21:25 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.