OpenTwo 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 “Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Child (obverse); Silver Pill Box with Peony (reverse)” — 14 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:59 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.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Child (obverse); Silver Pill Box with Peony (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Caparisoned Elephant Standing (obverse); Two Karako with Trumpet, Banner (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Crane Standing Beneath Pine Tree (obverse); Morning Glory and Inscription (reverse)
Hanabusa Itchō · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Birds in Flight above Flowering Iris (obverse); Butterflies above Flowering Peony (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Two Cranes beneath a Flowering Cherry (obverse); Pheasant beside a Peony (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums (obverse); Chinese Characters for Long Life (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Peonies (obverse) Cat Biting into Peony Stem (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Lion on a Stand Looking at a Butterfly (obverse); Chinese Bellflowers in a Pot (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese-Style Landscape with a Building (obverse); Waterfall with Cloud Bands (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of the Courtier Yasusuke Playing Flute beneath Full Moon (obverse); His Brother Kidomaru Hiding among Autumn Grasses (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Sage beside and Ox (obverse); Dragon in Clouds over a Waterfall (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of People (Benkei and Yoshitsune)Talking to Child Carrying a Large Basket (obverse); Two Running Children (reverse)
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. 14 matched · 14 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 01:59 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.