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 “Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Women at Court” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Women at Court
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

inro
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Medicine case (inro)
Ogawa Ritsuo (1663-1747) · early 18th century

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Study of Mrs. Jay for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Competitive Design for a Mural in the United States Court House, New York
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1895

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1713–22

Study of Standing Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

Dish with Japanese court woman and birds
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century, decoration ca. 1750

The Beneficence of the Law, Design for Mural at Essex County Court House, Newark, NJ
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1906

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

Medicine case (inro)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th-19th century

Watch case
George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Inro
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Imperial Knife with Sheath
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

The Beneficence of the Law, Design for Mural at Essex County Court House, Newark, New Jersey
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1906

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Plate 7 of a Set of Chinese Genre Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Celestial globe with clockwork
Gerhard Emmoser · 1579

Inro
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Bookcase (one of a pair)
Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Tintype in a paper case of three unidentified young women seated
Artist not stated in the record · 1870s
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. 1197 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. 2957777 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 19:27 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.