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. 12 shown for “Incense Box (Kōgō) in the Shape of a Plum Blossom” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Incense Box (Kōgō) in the Shape of a Plum Blossom
Artist not stated in the record · first half 19th century

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)
Artist not stated in the record · crossbow, ca. 1575–1650; cranequin dated 1562

Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Teapot in the Shape of a Plum Blossom
Shi Dabin · early 17th century

Incense Container (Kōgō) in the Shape of a Clamshell, with Cranes (exterior) and Tortoise Motifs (interior)
Eiraku Hozen · first half 19th century

Incense box
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Brush washer in the shape of a plum blossom
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Seal with knob in the shape of a wheel
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1424

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

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

Covered box from an incense set
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Clog-shaped tea bowl (kutsu-gata chawan) with plum blossoms and geometric patterns
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
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. 159 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 21:33 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.