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 “Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Waves” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Waves
Artist not stated in the record

Vase en plomb bronzé de la piece de Neptune à Versailles
Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56

Jar (Tsubo) with Chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

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

Bottle with Waves and Auspicious Emblems
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Vase en plomb bronzé de la piece de Neptune à Versailles
Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1744–56
Kosode Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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

Shakyamuni triad
Unidentified artist · 1565

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

Nymph with a Shell
Antoine Coysevox · Late 17th century

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

Beaker with birds and animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE
Kettle on Stand from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902
Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Leaves
Artist not stated in the record

Flowers and Rhombuses
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century
Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Butterfly
Artist not stated in the record

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · ca. 1767
Piece from a Kosode with Crane and Chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · mid- 18th–late 18th century
Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record
Japanese Arisaka Rifle with Bayonet
Artist not stated in the record

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

Waste Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902
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. 169 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. 2935736 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-03 00:28 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.