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 Insects beside Flowering Autumn Grasses” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:22 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 Insects beside Flowering Autumn Grasses
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

inro
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

Inrō with Tanabata Story of the Weaver and the Herdboy
Nomura Kyūkoku · active first half of the19th century

Autumn and Winter: Eight Muses in Pairs set in Octagons.
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

Case (Inrō ) with Design of a Gourd Vine
Koma Yasutada · 18th century

Inro
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Grapevine
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

The Sun, the Hours, and the Seasons, for Palazzo Gessi, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813
Case (Inrō) with Design of Dewdrops and Insects on Autumn Grasses in Basket
Yamada Jōkasai (1681–1704) · 19th century

Decorative Project for Central Tondo with Apollo, Autumn and Winter
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1780

Case (Inrō) with Design of Clamshells and Fireflies
Koma Yasutada · late 18th century

Decoration of a lateral panel of a coach
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–75

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

Hibiscus, maple and autumn wheat grass
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Lovers Beside Flowering Autumn Grasses
Hishikawa Moronobu · 1680s

Abstract autumn grass motif
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th century

Design for a Painted Ceiling and the Decoration of a Short Wall Illustrating the Seasons
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–50

Inrō with Autumn Ivy
Koma Kyūhaku VI · early 19th century

Network of Grasses
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Hagi, Chrysanthemum and Autumn Grasses
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Design for a Door Case
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790
Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Hagi, Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

A Window Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1730–1760
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. 59 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. 3422009 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 16:22 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.