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. 20 shown for “Bowl in the shape of a chrysanthemum flower” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bowl in the shape of a chrysanthemum flower
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Dish in the shape of a leaf
Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

Chrysanthemum Pattern Mustard Spoon
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Turban Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Ice Cream Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Chrysanthemum
Ogata Kenzan · 1743

Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Bowl
Fernand Thesmar · 1903
Chrysanthemum Pattern Salt Spoon
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Glass garland bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Chrysanthemum Pattern Luncheon Fork
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · 1880–91

Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Dish in the shape of a chrysanthemum flower (one of two)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 2918 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. 7484519 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 10:27 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.