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. 22 shown for “Inrō with floating fans” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:20 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 floating fans
Artist not stated in the record · first half 19th century

Inro
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Inrō with Inrō and Fan
Koma Kyūhaku V · late 18th century

Inro
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Case (Inrō) with Design of Fans and Plum Branch
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

inro
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900
Case (Inrō) with Design of Curtains of State and a Woman's Fan
Koma Kōryū · late 18th–19th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 300–100 BC
Inrō with Kyōgen Dancer with Quiver from “The Monkey Skin Quiver” (obverse); Dancer with Fan and Sword (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 19th century

Moon Cape (Tsuki-no-misaki) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

Inrō with Ema (Shinto Shrine Votive Plaque) of Eight Fan Shapes and Framed Pictures
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th century

Decorated Fans
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Dancer's Bells and Fans with Plum Blossoms, Pines and Grass
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Ivy vines, bridges and floating fans 蔦の細道扇面流図屏風
Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · early 17th century
Case (Inrō) with Object from the Noh drama "Hachinoki"
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Netsuke
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Noh Dancer with Okina Mask (obverse); Noh Dancer with Fan (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Brisé fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Sages Seated on Verandah, One holding a Fan
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Case (Inrō) with Design of Commander's Baton and Other Military Objects
Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 47 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. 255805 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 05:20 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.