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. 17 shown for “Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Kin-chaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Kin-chaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Kinchaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Netsuke
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Toad
Artist not stated in the record · possibly 16th century

netsuke
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Pair of sandals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Pair of sandals from the Burial of Amenhotep
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Sandals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos")
Pacetti, Vincenzo · 27 BCE–68 CE

Sandals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Marble statue of an old woman
Artist not stated in the record · 14–68 CE

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)
Alessandro Algardi · late 17th 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. 379 matched · 24 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3968329 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 16:29 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.