OpenTwo 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 “Inrō with Lotus and Crab (obverse); Lotus and Tadpole (reverse)” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.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.
Inrō with Lotus and Crab (obverse); Lotus and Tadpole (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century
Saya Inrō with Pine and Ivy (obverse) and Bamboo Grove (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Lotus (obverse); Lotus and Bird (reverse)
Shibata Zeshin · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Lotus (obverse); Flowering Peony and Lotus (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Case (Inrō) with Portrait of Daruma (obverse); Large Lotus Leaf and Stalk with Seed Pod (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Crab in Basket (obverse); Crab in Bamboo Leaves (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Animal Being Attacked by Crabs (obverse); Pond with Rocks and Plants (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Fragment of a terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Prometheus Painter · ca. 575–560 BCE
Knife Handle (Kozuka) With Lotus Motif (蓮図小柄)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Terracotta amphora (jar)
Antimenes Painter · ca. 510 BCE
金魚子地秋草図金具合口拵・付銀刀 Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō)
宮田信清 Miyata Nobukiyo · mid–late 19th century
Terracotta fragments of a neck-amphora of Panathenaic shape
Artist not stated in the record · third quarter of the 6th century BCE
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. 28 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 2026-08-28 11:28 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.