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. 18 shown for “Flower-shaped Negoro Tray (Kōban) with Three Feet” — 46 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Flower-shaped Negoro Tray (Kōban) with Three Feet
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Tray for a Covered Dish
Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838 · late 19th century

Large Negoro Lobed Tray (Rinka-bon)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Tray
Artist not stated in the record · 1853 - 1861

Round Negoro Tray (Ashitsuki-ban) with Three Feet
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Covered Dish (with Tray)
Haviland & Co., French, established ca. 1838 · late 19th century

Tray
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th–19th century

Sugar Bowl and Stand
Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773 · ca. 1770

Candlestand and holder (guéridon)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1730–85

Coffee Service
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1903

Pair of candlestands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710

Écuelle and Stand
Clignancourt Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1771 - ca. 1791 · late 18th century

Cruet Stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870
![tray, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-A5B1CB12ADF52_02.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
tray
Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1757–1765

Screens
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1905

Design in Three Views for Mahogany and Inlay Sideboard
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Design for a Water Urn with Stand
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1820–35

Creamer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1780
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 262255 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 04:59 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.