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 Parrot on Swing (obverse) Basket of Pomegranates (reverse)” — 64 records examined, 12 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 Parrot on Swing (obverse) Basket of Pomegranates (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Handscreen
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Case (Inrō) with Design of Fireworks (obverse); Design of Fan (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Inrō with God of Longevity (Jurōjin) and a Stag (obverse) and Long-Tailed Turtle (Minogame) under Bamboo (reverse)
Somada School Artist · late 18th–early 19th century

Basket of Blossoms and Leaves with Pomegranates on Earth
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
Inrō with Street Festival (obverse); People Watching a Puppet Show (reverse)
Tatsuke Takamasu · second half of the 18th century

Pleated fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740
Case (Inrō) with Flowering Cherry Tree (obverse); Parrot in Ornamental Swing (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Dessert Fork and Knife with Accompanying Case
Francis Higgins III · 1884

Case (Inrō) with Design of Bird on Standing on Rocks (obverse) Bird Flying above Waves (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pleated fan and case
J. Creven · late 19th–early 20th century

Case (Inrō) with Design of Heron in Flight and Flowering Plant (obverse); Hawk Attacking a Crane (reverse)
Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuō) · 19th century

Folding fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragonfly (obverse); Praying Mantis (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pleated fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Inrō with Basket of Spring Flowers (obverse); Basket of Autumn Flowers (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Pleated fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of a Suit of Armor (obverse); Flasks for Boys Festival (reverse)
Yamada Jōkasai (1681–1704) · second half of the 19th century

Pleated fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Young Woman with Flower Basket of Plum Blossoms (obverse); Four Large Characters (reverse)
Kafu Mochikaze · 19th century

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730
Case (Inrō) with Design of Flying Cuckoo in Flight above Pines (obverse); Bonito (Fish) on Bamboo Leaves (reverse)
Toyōsai (1772–1845) · 19th century
Case for Set of Ten Gilt Demitasse Spoons
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1880
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. 52 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3046076 matched · 40 examined · 11 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.