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 “Nonomura Ninsei” — 27 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Nanban Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Large Handles
Nonomura Ninsei · second half 17th century

Tea ceremony water jar with design of Gion Festival halberds
Style of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77) · 18th century

Jar
Nonomura Ninsei · 1730

Tea bowl with reserve design of fans
Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77) · mid-17th century

Water Jar
Nonomura Ninsei · 17th century
Grateloupia californica
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1973

Teabowl
Nonomura Ninsei · 18th century
Phycodrys setchellii
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1973

Tea jar
Nonomura Ninsei · ca. 1660
Symphyocladiella baileyi (Harvey) D.E.Bustamante et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1973

Bowl
Nonomura Ninsei · 19th century

Spring Landscape
Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674) · 1672

Covered Incense Box
Nonomura Ninsei · 1670

Agano ware tea bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1630

Tea Caddy, named Tall (Seitaka)
Nonomura Ninsei · second half of the 17th century

Satsuma ware tea caddy
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Teabowl with Rising Sun and Crane
Eiraku Hozen · mid-19th century

Ninsei-style Incense Burner with Flowers of the Four Seasons
Nonomura Ninsei · 17th century

Incense Box with Design of the Seven Flowers of Autumn
Nonomura Ninsei · ca. 1648–1649

Set of Five Camellia-Shaped Side Dishes (Mukōzuke) with Camellia Patterns
Ogata Kenzan · 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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 0 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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 17:52 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.