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 Lute and Maple Leaves” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

inro
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Maple Seed Vessels
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · ca. 1884

Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Six Medallion or Frame Designs
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Maple Leaves, Mt. Desert
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · July 1877

Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Title Page
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

Case (Inrō) with Design of Lute and Maple Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Maple Leaves Motif
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

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

Maple Leaves Reflected in Rippling Streams
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Decorative Panel Design
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1777–79

Chair (Sgabello)
Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Maple Leaves on Stripes
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - mid 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Old Man and Woman (Jo and Uba) and Pine Trees (from Noh Play "Takasago Spirits of the Pine")
Minsetsusai Kyuho · 19th century

Medicine case (inro)
Ogawa Ritsuo (1663-1747) · late 17th-mid 18th century

Young Woman with a Lute
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Ornament Panel Design
Alexis Loir, French, 1640 - 1713 · ca.1660–1713

ex "Kurtz" Violin
Andrea Amati · ca. 1560

Abstract Maple Leaf Motif
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 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. 1010 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. 3129307 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 08:08 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.