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 “Box with Design of Cherry Blossoms at Mount Yoshino” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Viewing of Cherry Blossoms
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Cherry Blossoms
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Design for a Book Cover: Dragons and Cherry Blossoms
Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961 · ca. 1896

Box with Design of Cherry Blossoms at Mount Yoshino
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Designs for Three Brooches
Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1770

Cherry Blossom Viewing at Itsukushima and Yoshino
Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Rectangular box with cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)
Artist not stated in the record · crossbow, ca. 1575–1650; cranequin dated 1562

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Coffeepot (part of a service)
Meissen Manufactory · 1723–26

Cherry Blossom Viewing
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Blossoming Cherry Trees
Sakai Hōitsu · ca. 1805

Peonies and Blossoms
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Kimono
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Blossoms and Banana Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Ewer (Suichū) with Cherry Blossoms and Picnic Curtain
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Aristocrates Being Carried
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

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

Fukagawa Hachiman yanabiraki from the Series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858
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. 230 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. 3001884 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-06 00:25 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.