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 “Pail‑shaped freshwater jar (Onioke mizusashi)” — 20 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pail‑shaped freshwater jar (Onioke mizusashi)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 16th century

Freshwater jar in the shape of a bucket with Mishima inlay
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Karatsu ware ewer or freshwater jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1596-1615

Tea ceremony water jar, unknown Raku ware workshop
False seal of Chojiro · late 18th-19th century

Takatori ware tea ceremony water jar, Higashi Sarayama kiln
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1868

Tea ceremony water jar, unknown workshop
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th-mid 19th century

Tea ceremony water jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1630

Tea ceremony water jar, Takatori or Karatsu ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1598-1610

Karatsu ware tea ceremony water jar, E-Karatsu type
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th-early 17th century

Tea ceremony water jar
Eiraku Hozen 永楽保全 (1795-1854) · 1827-1843

Tea ceremony water jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1660-1670

Tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi) with design of plum branches, Karatsu ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1850

Tea ceremony water jar with design of Gion Festival halberds
Style of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77) · 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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 1 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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 0 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 2026-08-28 12:21 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.