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 “Mino or Inuyama ware sake bottle” — 49 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sake Vessel (Heishi) with Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Mino or Inuyama ware sake bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1868

Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) in the Shape of an Eggplant
Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century

Ofuke or Seto ware sake bottle
Kato Soshiro (1802-1877) · 1831-1868

Recumbent bottle (Yokobe)
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century

Sake bottle, Seto-related or Kyoto-related ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1880

Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with Decoration of Three-Leaf Arrowhead
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Sake bottle, Bizen ware, Imbe type
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th-early 18th century

Pair of Sake Bottles with Pine, Bamboo, and Plum
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Shidoro ware sake bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1880

Tea Caddy (Chaire)
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Taizan ware sake bottle for domestic Shinto shrine
Taizan Yohei · 1800-1868

Tea caddy
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1710–13

Bizen ware sake bottle in the shape of a wild duck
Terami Enkichi (died 1838) · early 19th century

Tea caddy
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1713–20

Sake bottle
Decoration attributed to Kano Tangen (1679-1767) · 18th century

Vase
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1713–20

Mino ware tea bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1570-1580

Satsuma ware sake ewer
Artist not stated in the record · second half of 17th-18th century

Ryumonji ware sake flask
Artist not stated in the record · 17th-18th 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 256805 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:02 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.