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. 18 shown for “Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemum and Bee (obverse); Praying Mantis (reverse)” — 46 records examined, 20 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 Chrysanthemum and Bee (obverse); Praying Mantis (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Pleated fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887
Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragonfly (obverse); Praying Mantis (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
inro
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900
Case (Inrō) with Design of Praying Mantis Standing on a Flowering Chrysanthemum (obverse); Large Red Blossom (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Pleated fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740
Case (Inrō) with Design of Leafy Grapevines (obverse); Chrysanthemum Spray (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Folding fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums (obverse); Chinese Characters for Long Life (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Dessert Fork and Knife with Accompanying Case
Francis Higgins III · 1884
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums behind Bamboo Blind (Sudare) (obverse); Brocade Pattern (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Brisé fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Pleated fan and case
J. Creven · late 19th–early 20th century
Pleated fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1762
Snuff bottle and stopper
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Chrysanthemum Pattern Dinner Knife
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880
Pleated fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century
Pleated fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th 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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3172447 matched · 40 examined · 20 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.