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 “Akahada ware water jar” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jar
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–550 CE

Akahada ware water jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1850

Water Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1689–1712

Akahada ware tea bowl with design of standing cranes
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1850

Water Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1678–88

Tea ceremony water jar, Takatori or Karatsu ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1598-1610

Water Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1678–88

Karatsu ware tea ceremony water jar, E-Karatsu type
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th-early 17th century

Water Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1678–88

Tea ceremony water jar, unknown Raku ware workshop
False seal of Chojiro · late 18th-19th century

Decorated Ware Jar Depicting Ungulates and Boats with Human Figures
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3500–3300 BCE

Tea ceremony water jar, Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type
Artist not stated in the record · 1640-1670

Water jar with clouds
Artist not stated in the record

Shigaraki ware jar for hand-washing water
Okuda Shinsai (1821-1902) · ca. 1860-1865

Water Jar with Swirling Clouds
Artist not stated in the record · 1713–22

Tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi) with design of plum branches, Karatsu ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1850

Large Storage Jar (Ōtsubo)
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Tea-ceremony water jar in style of Kyoto ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1660-1700

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 12th century

Tea ceremony water jar, Kyushu-related ware
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th-mid 19th century

Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Pines
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650s

Takatori ware tea ceremony water jar, Higashi Sarayama kiln
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1868

Nanban Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Large Handles
Nonomura Ninsei · second half 17th century

Tea ceremony water jar with design of Gion Festival halberds
Style of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77) · 18th century
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. 63 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 50788 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 2026-09-03 10:43 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.