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. 20 shown for “Large Dish (Ōzara) with Peony, Butterfly, and Insects” — 48 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Large Dish (Ōzara) with Peony, Butterfly, and Insects
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1624 –43

Dish
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th–early 19th century

Large Dish (Ōzara) with Lion and Peony
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640s

Woman's robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Dish with tree, flowers, and birds
Vienna · ca. 1722–23

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

Botanical plate with spray of lilies
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Charger
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1745

Palette-Shaped Butter Dish
Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898 · ca. 1880

Plate
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

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

Charger
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1745

Tapestry: a peony and butterfly
Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

A Vase with Flowers
Jacob Vosmaer · probably 1613

Tureen and Stand
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1775

Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880

Peonies and butterfly
Traditionally attributed to Xu Chongsi (active 11th century) · 1368-1644

Bird with Tulip, Carnation, Butterflies, and Insect
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
![Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket], by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-1938-58-865MattFlynn.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket]
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699 · ca. 1680
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1859628 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-27 17:03 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.