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 Owl and Crows in Tree” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 10:40 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 Owl and Crows in Tree
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

inro
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900
Inrō with Crows on Tree in Moonlight
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Owl and Figure in Landscape
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–19th century
Inrō with Crows on Cherry Tree in Moonlight
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

The Fox and the Crow, Illustration for Aesop's Fables
Victor Wilbour · ca. 1916

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Inro
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

Inro
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
Théodore Géricault · 1818

Sketch for Cover in “The World’s Almaniac”
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878
Case (Inrō) with Design of Crane Standing Beneath Pine Tree (obverse); Morning Glory and Inscription (reverse)
Hanabusa Itchō · 19th century

The Fox and the Crow
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878
Case (Inrō) with Design of Buddhist Angel (obverse); Pine Forest (reverse)
Tōyō · late 18th century

Cover for "The World’s Almaniac for 1879"
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878
Case (Inrō) with Design of Blossoming Plum Tree
Kano Seisen’in · 19th century

The Physician and the Hyena
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Scherzi di Fantasia
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760
Case (Inrō) with Design of Three Herons Seated in Maple Tree (obverse); Three Crows in Autumn Forest (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Two Magi and a Boy, plate 13 from the Scherzi di Fantasia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · 1750–1760
Case (Inrō) with Design of Semi-Circular Bridge (obverse); Crows in Flight Beside Pagoda (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Design for Ceiling Ornament
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740
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. 152 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 7483208 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 10:40 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.