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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. 23 shown for “Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Persons on a Verandah against Stylized Wave Background” — 51 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Persons on a Verandah against Stylized Wave Background
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century
inro
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900
Covered ewer
Chinese · ca. 1644–83
dado
Artist not stated in the record · 1817–27
The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597
Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890
Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1805–25
Old Plum
Kano Sansetsu · 1646
Waves Breaking on Rocks with Cliffs and Possible Fog
William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905 · 1870–85
Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru
Huang Tingjian · ca. 1095
Tintype of two seated men in wooden and velvet case
Unidentified · 1870s - 1890s
Twin Pines, Level Distance
Zhao Mengfu · ca. 1310
Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60
Panel from a Tent Lining (Qanat)
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Window shade
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900
Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century
Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845
Mold Fragment with Musicians
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century
Design for Wallpaper
Anna M. de Pool · 1894
Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun
'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki · ca. 1329–35
Book Endpaper Design: Two Paisley Bands
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Surf Pounding Against the Rocky Maine Coast
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1862
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3994907 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-27 10:43 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.