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. 12 shown for “Bowl decorated with cranes, rain, and chrysanthemums” — 24 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Bowl decorated with cranes, rain, and chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Bowl decorated with phoenixes, clouds, and chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Bowl with inscription and chrysanthemums and tortoiseshell decoration
Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Bowl with imaginary composite flowers
Artist not stated in the record

Vertical flute decorated with chrysanthemums, cranes, and clouds
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

Bowl decorated with peony leaves and chrysanthemum
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Tea bowl decorated with chrysanthemums and wavy lines
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Bottle with Flying Cranes
Artist not stated in the record · 1650s

Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Dish with Floral Designs
Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Vessel with throne scene
Chamá artist(s) · 600–900 CE
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. 38 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 12:40 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.