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 “Basin decorated with peonies” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 03:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Basin
Master Potter A · ca. 1650

Peonies in the Wind with Kakemono Borders
John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910 · ca. 1893

Basin decorated with peonies
Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th century

Decorative panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Basin
François-Desiré Froment-Meurice · ca. 1850
Peacocks and Peonies II
John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910 · 1882

Basin
Samuel Margas Jr. · ca. 1721
Peacocks and Peonies I
John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910 · 1882

Basin
Abraham Portal · 1755/56

Brisé fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1710–20

Basin
Bernard Palissy · late 16th–early 17th century

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

Openwork jar with peonies
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent
Artist not stated in the record · late 1300s or early 1400s

Design for a Sugar Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Peonies
Edouard Manet · 1864–65

Design for a Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Flask-shaped bottle decorated with peonies
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Covered Box on Stand
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

Basin
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Straw hat with net and cream peony
Hattie Carnegie, American, 1886 - 1956 · 1947-1956
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. 311 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. 348988 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-10 03:28 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.