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 “Jar (Tsubo) with Stylized Net Design” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 03:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jar (Tsubo) with Stylized Net Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1620–40

Bands
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Jar (Tsubo) with Chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Design for a Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Storage jar decorated with mountain goats
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4000–3600 BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1400–1550

Hexagonal Jar (Rokkaku-tsubo) with Paulownia and Geometric Design
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Fan leaf
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Inrō with Stylized Waves
Shibata Zeshin · 19th century

Jar and lid
Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848–1933 · ca. 1900

Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Jar Depicting Three Spirited Peacocks
Artist not stated in the record · second half 10th century

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Luster Jar with Hares (?) and Inscribed Words
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Miser's purse
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–60

Glass hexagonal jug with Jewish symbols
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–early 7th century CE

Jar and lid
Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1725

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Altar frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Cylinder seal and modern impression: creature flanking stylized tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 11th–9th century BCE

Sash or towel
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) in the Shape of a Seed Jar (Tane-tsubo)
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Chalice cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 38 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 306238 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-30 03:32 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.