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 “Large Dish with Peony Bouquet and Cherry Blossom Rafts” — 50 records examined, 9 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 with Peony Bouquet and Cherry Blossom Rafts
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Peonies and Blossoms
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Large Dish (Shakuzara) with Cherry Blossoms and Fence
Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1720s

Bouquet holder, cherries and blossoms motif
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

Dish with Cherry Blossoms and Textile Curtains
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670–90

A Bouquet of Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1760

Dish with Cherry Blossom Rafts
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1720

A Bouquet of Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1760

The Flowering Orchard
Vincent van Gogh · 1888

Flower Study, Peonies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Amusements at Higashiyama in Kyoto
Studio of Kano Sadanobu · early 1620s

Scenic
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–99

Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion
Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 · 1786

Cherry Blossoms
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Hartford./ Connecticut./ JACKSONS WARRANTED
Job & John Jackson · ca. 1831–ca. 1835

Study of Pale Pink Peonies
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century
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[University Hall, Harvard College]
Job & John Jackson · ca. 1831–ca. 1835

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

Stand for a Qur'an Manuscript
Zain(?) Hasan Sulaiman Isfahani · dated 761 AH/1360 CE

Study of Peony Stalk with Blossoms
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Study of Peonies
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th 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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1534485 matched · 40 examined · 9 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.