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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. 24 shown for “Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Sages on Verandah beside Rocks and Trees” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:09 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 Sages on Verandah beside Rocks and Trees
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

inro
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Sages Seated on Verandah
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Design for a Window Case
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1770
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Sages Playing Musical Instruments on a Verandah
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Trees on a Rock, near the Obersee, Bavaria (Germany)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1868

Case (Inrō) with Design of Grasshopper on Stalk of Flowering Lily
Nomura Chōkei (dates unknown) · 18th–19th century

Men Fishing with a Rod and Net
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1897

Nécessaire with watch
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Doorway, Loggia, Ground Floor, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1780
Case (Inrō) with Design of Sage Seated on Rocks beside a Tree, Exhaling His Spirit (obverse); His Spirit Walking on Air (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Canadian Bank, Niagara Falls, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1858

Case (Inrō) with Design of Cicada on Tree Trunk
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

A Woman with a Parasol
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759

Case (Inrō) with Design of Zodiac Animals beside Chinese Sages and Scrolls
Artist not stated in the record

Tree Trunks beside a Board Fence
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1844
Inrō with Tiger Drinking from a River beside Rocks and Pine Tree
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Chinoiserie Fantasy
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · ca. 1780
Case (Inrō) with Design of Sage beside a Waterfall (obverse); Tiger beside Rocks and Maple Tree (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Trees and Rocks on the Road to Mocha, Ecuador, near Chimborazo
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 16, 1857

Case (Inrō) with Design of Pheasant on Rocks beside Flowering Azalea
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Jerusalem by Moonlight
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · March 31, 1868
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Persons on a Verandah against Stylized Wave Background
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Donkeys at Rest, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 2, 1857
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. 32 matched · 24 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. 3293036 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 08:09 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.