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. 17 shown for “Auspicious Emblem with Pururavas and Urvashi” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Auspicious Emblem with Pururavas and Urvashi
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–1st century CE

Daoist priest's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Auspicious Emblem with Four Dancing Figures
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Tray, from a Lemonade Set
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

Bottle with Waves and Auspicious Emblems
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Lemonade Set
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

Auspicious Emblem with Five Revelers
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

The Auspicious Noh Dance "Okina"
Toriyama Sekien · ca. 1790–95

Man's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

Barberini Cabinet
Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23

Finial in the shape of a dragon head
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

Dragon jar
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Bowl with auspicious symbols
Artist not stated in the record

Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter
Kano Chikanobu · early 18th century

Bowl with auspicious emblems (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · second half 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. 28 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. 1522044 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 04:41 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.