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. 24 shown for “Picnic Set with Design of Chrysanthemum Sprays” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Picnic Set with Design of Chrysanthemum Sprays
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Letter box
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Coffeepot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels
François Boucher · 1765

Teapot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

Dish with Cherry Blossoms and Textile Curtains
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670–90

Sidewall
Imperial Wallcoverings Inc., American, founded 1901 · 1870–80
Case (Inrō) with Design of Leafy Grapevines (obverse); Chrysanthemum Spray (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Waste Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

Vertical Panels with Cherry Spray
Jacques Germain Soufflot · designed 1758–67, woven 1764–71
Kettle on Stand from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

Set of four three-light wall brackets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

Sugar Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play
Jean Georges (or George) · ca. 1761–62

Hat of the Great Mogul
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Picnic set with decoration of chrysanthemum and autumn grasses
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1890–1900

The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Wire frame, spray stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda)
Luis Meléndez · ca. 1772

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th 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. 87 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. 2900756 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 18:42 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.