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. 21 shown for “Dish with Rock, Peonies, Chrysanthemums, and Fungus” — 49 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 03:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dish with Rock, Peonies, Chrysanthemums, and Fungus
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Flowers and Rhombuses
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Set of pigment tablets decorated with peony, rock, and magic fungus
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Tureen with rocks, flowers, and birds
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Dish and cover
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1880

Set of pigment tablets decorated with peony, rock, and magic fungus
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Dish and cover
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1880

Circular textile with two phoenixes
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Communion dish used by the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Rank badge with two phoenixes
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Kesi tapestry of two birds and a flowering tree
Artist not stated in the record · 16th-18th century

Plateau
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Flowers: chrysanthemums, peonies, etc
Artist not stated in the record · 18th-19th century

Flowers
Liang Yuwei · Undated

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

Amusements at Higashiyama in Kyoto
Studio of Kano Sadanobu · early 1620s

Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · 1880–91

Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Chrysanthemum Pattern Luncheon Knife
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1785968 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-10 03:33 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.