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. 13 shown for “Mitsutada Ohi” — 28 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Teabowl
Mitsutada Ohi · 19th century

Ohi ware incense burner in shape of a bronze vessel
Ohi VI Chozaemon (1815-1856) · mid 19th century

Ohi ware tea bowl
Ohi Doan (died 1839) · late 18th-early 19th century

Ōhi ware shallow tea bowl with incised design
Ohi Kambei (died 1802) · second half of 18th century

Tridax procumbens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1967

Eriophorum virginicum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1894 to 15 Aug 1894

Bidens aristosa (Michx.) Britton
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1895

Calopteryx splendens
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1917

Calopteryx splendens
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1917

Calopteryx virgo
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1917

Calopteryx splendens
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1917

Calopteryx splendens
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1917

Brocade, silk. Buddhist monk's stole (ohi 被)
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 27 matched · 27 examined · 2 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 2026-09-03 08:17 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.