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 “Maebyeong (plum bottle) decorated with cranes and clouds” — 48 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Maebyeong (plum bottle) decorated with cranes and clouds
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Pair of Wine Bottle Coolers (Seaux à Demi-Bouteille)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1782

Maebyeong (plum bottle) decorated with cranes and clouds
Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th century

Smoking Stand (Tabako-Bon)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bottle with Flying Cranes
Artist not stated in the record · 1650s
![Square Bottle, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-1144C5D57FCA2_02.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Square Bottle
Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · ca. 1686–1701

Maebyeong with lotus decoration
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Wine Bottle Cooler (Seau à Demi-Bouteille; One of a Pair)
Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1730

Maebyeong decorated with lotus
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Wine Bottle Cooler (Seau à Demi-Bouteille; One of a Pair)
Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766 · ca. 1730

Maebyeong with chrysanthemum decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Asian Female with Parasol
Bristol Manufacturing Company, American, 1895 - 1915 · ca. 1895

Dish with Floral Designs
Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Rank badge (buzi)
Artist not stated in the record · Ming dynasty 1368–1644

Kosode Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Kimono
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Condiment Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Condiment Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Figures in Lotus-Shaped Reserve
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Scent bottle and lid
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870
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. 1538050 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 11:49 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.