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. 12 shown for “Pair of Sake Bottles with Pine, Bamboo, and Plum” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

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

Gourd-Shaped Bottle with Deer and Crane in Landscape
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Dish with Sacred Jewels, Pine, Bamboo, and Plum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1720s

Sake vessel (Heishi)
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Dish with flowers and birds
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Old Plum
Kano Sansetsu · 1646

Sake Vessel (Heishi) with Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Sake bottle with pine, bamboo and plum
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Pine (front) and Plum with Bamboo (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40s

Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with “Three Friends of Winter” (Pine, Bamboo, and Plum)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Pine, Bamboo, Grape, and Squirrel
Unidentified · 18th–19th century

Sake bottle with pine and plum
Artist not stated in the record · 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. 109 matched · 24 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 06:54 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.