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. 22 shown for “Document Box (Bunko) with Design of Cherry Trees in Bloom in Yoshino” — 50 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Document Box (Bunko) with Design of Cherry Trees in Bloom in Yoshino
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Nippori, Temple Gardens (Nippori, jiin no rinsen) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

Blossoming Cherry Trees
Sakai Hōitsu · ca. 1805

Platter
W. S. Coleman · 1871

Cherry Blossom Viewing at Itsukushima and Yoshino
Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Spring Festival
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · probably 1624

Distant View of Kinryuzan Temple from Azuma Bridge (Azuma-bashi, Kinryuzan embo) No.39 From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

Box with Design of Cherry Blossoms at Mount Yoshino
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

April, from series of "Social Customs..."
Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese, 1724 – 1770 · ca. 1770

Writing Box with Design of a Cherry Tree and Waterfall
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Flower Pavilion, Dango Hill, Sendagi (Sendagi, Dango-zaka Hana-yashiki) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

Six Jewel Rivers
Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Shinagawa from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · ca. 1856-58

Writing Box with a Scene from the “Butterflies” Chapter of The Tale of Genji
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Shinagawa from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · ca. 1856-58

Writing Box (suzuribako) with Waterfall and Auspicious Characters
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

New Fuji, Meguro (meguro, Shin-Fuji) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

“Butterflies” (Kochō), from the Tale of Genji
Tosa Mitsuyoshi · late 16th–early 17th century

Study for "June Woods"
William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905 · 1864

Fukagawa Hachiman yanabiraki from the Series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · March 29, 1803
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7484734 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 2026-09-05 22:52 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.