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 “Flowers: chrysanthemums, peonies, etc” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 05:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

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

Bottle with flowers of the four seasons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710

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

Covered box with peonies and seasonal flowers
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Bowl with imaginary composite flowers
Artist not stated in the record

Plate 10, from set of Flowers in a Basket
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699 · ca. 1680

Set of wine cups with flowers of the twelve months
Artist not stated in the record
![Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket], by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-1938-58-865MattFlynn.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket]
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699 · ca. 1680

Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons
Kano Mitsunobu · late 16th century

Chrysanthemum coronarium L.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1939

Vase with flowers and birds of the four seasons
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Chrysanthemum Pattern Dinner Knife
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Fans and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th–first half 19th century

Chrysanthemum Pattern Fish Knife
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

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

Peonies and Ropes
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Long-Sleeved Robe (Furisode) with Phoenixes, Cherry Blossoms, Peonies, and Maple Branches
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Flower Study, Peonies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Bouquet of Chrysanthemums
Auguste Renoir · 1881

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

Oil bottle decorated with peonies and chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Chrysanthemum Pattern Mustard Spoon
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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 25848 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 05:29 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.