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 “Dish with tiger and bamboo” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:02 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 tiger and bamboo
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Tray, from a Lemonade Set
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

Dish with pine trees
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Lemonade Set
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

Plate with tiger and bamboo
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Short coat
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Plate with tiger and bamboo
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1730

Circaea erubescens Franch. & Sav.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 2006

Dish with flowers and birds
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Eleutherococcus gracilistylus var. pubescens (Pamp.) S.Y. Hu
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 2006

Tiger
Meisō · early 18th century

Aralia undulata Hand.-Mazz.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 2006

Fan-shaped dish
Vienna · ca. 1725–30

Fagus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 2006

Service vessel with bamboo, plum blossoms, butterflies, and birds
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Prunus buergeriana Miq.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 2006

Dish with 'Cintamani' and Tiger-stripe Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Aralia elata (Miq.) Seem.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 2006

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1710

Dysosma difformis (Hemsl. & E.H. Wilson) T.H. Wang
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 2006

Dish with Three Friends of Winter
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Chengiopanax fargesii (Franch.) C.B. Shang & J.Y. Huang
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 2006

Dish with Sacred Jewels, Pine, Bamboo, and Plum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1720s

Prunus obtusata Koehne in Sarg.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 2006
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 · 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. 1526752 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-03 05:02 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.