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 Grapevine” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:33 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 Grapevine
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

inro
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

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

Inro
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Inro
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Designs for Two Vases and a Clock Case
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories
Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1800

Design for a Tureen
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1825–1835

Obelisk clock with a Franklin movement
David Roentgen · ca. 1785–90

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

Inrō with Grapevine
Nomura Choheisai · second half of the 18th century

Design for a Tureen
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1825–1835
Case (Inrō) with Design of Leafy Grapevines (obverse); Chrysanthemum Spray (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Napkin
Artist not stated in the record · 1680s

Celestial globe with clockwork
Gerhard Emmoser · 1579

Medicine case (inro)
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

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

A Sheet with Two Projects and Sketches
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Cape for an ecclesiastical figurine
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–99

Belt buckle
Carlo Giuliano · ca. 1900

Netsuke
Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 2391 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 2900848 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 08:33 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.