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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 “Fujiwara no Teika’s “Poems on Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months”” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:39 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Fujiwara no Teika’s “Poems on Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months”

Fujiwara no Teika’s “Poems on Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months”

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
“The Poem of Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason” from the series The Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyaku’nin Isshu Uba-ga-Etoki)

“The Poem of Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason” from the series The Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyaku’nin Isshu Uba-ga-Etoki)

Artist not stated in the record · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flowers, by Liang Yuwei

Flowers

Liang Yuwei · Undated

Public domainThe Met
Thatched huts along a shoreline from the Three Dusks, by Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674)

Thatched huts along a shoreline from the Three Dusks

Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674) · 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“Fourth Month” from Fujiwara no Teika’s “Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months”, by Ogata Kenzan

“Fourth Month” from Fujiwara no Teika’s “Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months”

Ogata Kenzan · 1743

Public domainThe Met
Woman with Birds, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Woman with Birds

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“Sixth Month” from Fujiwara no Teika’s “Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months”, by Ogata Kenzan

“Sixth Month” from Fujiwara no Teika’s “Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months”

Ogata Kenzan · 1743

Public domainThe Met
Man Dancing, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Man Dancing

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Man Holding a Sickle, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Man Holding a Sickle

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of wine cups with flowers of the twelve months

Set of wine cups with flowers of the twelve months

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
A Man with a Basket of Vegetables, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

A Man with a Basket of Vegetables

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759-76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi, by Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi

Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi · dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE

Public domainThe Met
Man with a Sickle, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Man with a Sickle

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759-76

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poems from the Collection of Lady Ise (Ise shū), from the Nishi-Honganji Anthology of Thirty-Six Poets, also known as one of the Ishiyama fragments (Ishiyama-gire), by Fujiwara no Sadanobu

Poems from the Collection of Lady Ise (Ise shū), from the Nishi-Honganji Anthology of Thirty-Six Poets, also known as one of the Ishiyama fragments (Ishiyama-gire)

Fujiwara no Sadanobu · ca. 1112

Public domainThe Met
Loo-rá-wée-re-coo, Bird that Goes to War, a Tapage Pawnee, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Loo-rá-wée-re-coo, Bird that Goes to War, a Tapage Pawnee

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Jewel Rivers, by Sakai Ōho

Six Jewel Rivers

Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Public domainThe Met
The Peasant's Feast, or, The Twelve Months, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

The Peasant's Feast, or, The Twelve Months

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1547

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poem by Fujiwara no Motozane (ca. 860) from the Series Thirty-Six Poets, by Suzuki Harunobu

Poem by Fujiwara no Motozane (ca. 860) from the Series Thirty-Six Poets

Suzuki Harunobu · ca. 1768

Public domainThe Met
Figure with Buckets, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Figure with Buckets

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months with Chinese Calligraphy, by Kano School

Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months with Chinese Calligraphy

Kano School · 16th century; sheets of poetry, one dated 1553

Public domainThe Met
A summer month, possibly Vaisakh, folio from a Barahmasa series

A summer month, possibly Vaisakh, folio from a Barahmasa series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“Mount Utsu” (Utsu no yama), from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari), by Tawaraya Sōtatsu

“Mount Utsu” (Utsu no yama), from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)

Tawaraya Sōtatsu · ca. 1634

Public domainThe Met
Man Dancing with a Mask, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Man Dancing with a Mask

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 59 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. 3918908 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 2026-08-28 06:39 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.