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 “Inrō with Chinese Landscape in Moonlight” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 13:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Inrō with Chinese Landscape in Moonlight
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–first half 19th century

Jerusalem by Moonlight
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · March 31, 1868

Landscape in Moonlight
Kano Tan'yū · after 1662

Two Evening Landscapes
Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · ca. 1890

Landscape in Moonlight
Kano Tan'yū · after 1662

Inro
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Landscape in Moonlight
Kano Tan'yū · after 1662

Jericho and the Dead Sea by Moonlight
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1878

Landscapes with poems
Gong Xian · 1688

Inro
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Chinese musicians
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Castle by Moonlight
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1850–60

Guqin (古琴 )
Prince Lu · 1634

inro
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

Landscape
Monk Jie · Dated 1599 (or 1659)

Moonlight in El Yemen Valley, Palestine (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 29, 1868

Beaker with “Posteleӱn Verkooping” (porcelain selling)
Daniel Preissler · beaker ca. 1700–20; decoration ca. 1711–30

Aletsch Glacier by Moonlight, Switzerland
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 28, 1868

Water Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1689–1712

Llamas Grazing and El Altar in Splendid Moonlight, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1853

Landscape
Song Nian · dated 1898

Niagara Moonlight
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1858

Table screen with landscape
Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Medicine case (inro)
Ogawa Ritsuo (1663-1747) · early 18th 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. 1120 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. 7464830 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-07 13:36 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.