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 “Inkstone with Bamboo Design” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 12:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Inkstone with Bamboo Design
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Scribe Set
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–80

Brush holder with scene of “Ode to the Pavilion of the Inebriated Old Man”
Zhang Xihuang · early 17th century

Heavenly Bamboo Motif
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Flying Cuckoo in Flight above Pines (obverse); Bonito (Fish) on Bamboo Leaves (reverse)
Toyōsai (1772–1845) · 19th century

Design for Bamboo Chair and Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1794–1804

Bamboo vase with flowering cherry blossoms
Worcester factory · 1880

Reed Brushes and Bamboo Leaves
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Teapot with double bamboo body
Worcester factory · 1880

Teapot
Artist not stated in the record · 1865–1885

Teapot with double bamboo body
Worcester factory · 1878

Bamboo
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - early 19th century
Inrō with Bamboo Grove
Yūtokusai Gyokkei · mid-19th century

Designs for Craftsmen
Artist not stated in the record · 1962

Inkstone with Box with Bamboo after Zheng Xie (1693–1765)
Artist not stated in the record

Design for Ceiling Decoration, Probably for Conservatory/Music Room or Perhaps Dining Room
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802

Traveling tea set
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1879

Bamboo Sketch, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May–September 1865

Plate with tiger and bamboo
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Bamboo Motif
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Horse and Autumn Grasses
Shibata Zeshin · 19th century

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Double-cut (Nijū-giri) Flower Container (Hanaire), named Cool Summer Morning (Shinryō)
Kōgetsu Sōgan · early 17th century

Botanical Sketches of Bamboo, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1865
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. 200 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 291554 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 2026-08-29 12:28 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.