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 “Abstract blossoms and kanoko pattern” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
White Plum Blossoms and Moon
Itō Jakuchū · 1755

Abstract blossoms and kanoko pattern
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Clog-shaped tea bowl (kutsu-gata chawan) with plum blossoms and geometric patterns
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Ceiling paper
Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York · 1905–1915

Kosode Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Abstract Blossom Motif
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)
Gustav Klimt · 1912–13

Pitcher
Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967 · 1887

Hortensia
Fernand Khnopff · 1884

Frieze
Carey Bros. W.P. Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded 1882 · 1905–1915

Carpet with Irises, Tulips, and Other Flowering Plants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Chrysanthemum Blossoms
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Vase Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Cherry Blossoms
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Vase
Newcomb Pottery · 1902

Sparrows and Bamboo leaves and other Blossoms on a Checked Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - early 19th century

La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Frieze
Gledhill Wall Paper Co., New York, New York, founded 1900 · 1905–1915

Furisode
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Robe (Kosode) with Bamboo and Plum
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Blossoms on a grid
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Flowers of Spring and Autumn
Ogata Kōrin · shortly after 1701

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915
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. 27 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1465252 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 03:25 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.