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Images / art

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

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Women at Court

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Women at Court

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

Public domainThe Met
inro

inro

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, by Robert Adam

Tapestry Room from Croome Court

Robert Adam · 1763–71

Public domainThe Met
Medicine case (inro), by Ogawa Ritsuo (1663-1747)

Medicine case (inro)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

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

Study of Mrs. Jay for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Competitive Design for a Mural in the United States Court House, New York, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Competitive Design for a Mural in the United States Court House, New York

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1713–22

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

Study of Standing Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Japanese court woman and birds

Dish with Japanese court woman and birds

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century, decoration ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
The Beneficence of the Law, Design for Mural at Essex County Court House, Newark, NJ, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

The Beneficence of the Law, Design for Mural at Essex County Court House, Newark, NJ

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Medicine case (inro)

Medicine case (inro)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch case, by George Harrison

Watch case

George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Imperial Knife with Sheath

Imperial Knife with Sheath

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
The Beneficence of the Law, Design for Mural at Essex County Court House, Newark, New Jersey, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

The Beneficence of the Law, Design for Mural at Essex County Court House, Newark, New Jersey

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Plate 7 of a Set of Chinese Genre Scenes

Plate 7 of a Set of Chinese Genre Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Celestial globe with clockwork, by Gerhard Emmoser

Celestial globe with clockwork

Gerhard Emmoser · 1579

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Tintype in a paper case of three unidentified young women seated

Tintype in a paper case of three unidentified young women seated

Artist not stated in the record · 1870s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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.