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 Crane and Chrysanthemums” — 64 records examined, 18 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 Crane and Chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record

Chrysanthemum crane
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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

Portrait of Yun Dongseom (1710–1795)
Unidentified artist · ca. 1790–1805

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

Box decorated with auspicious symbols
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Teapot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902
Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Waves
Artist not stated in the record

Sugar Bowl 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
Kettle on Stand from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902
Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Butterfly
Artist not stated in the record

Grasses and Cranes
Artist not stated in the record · early - mid 19th century

Kosode Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century
Japanese Arisaka Rifle with Bayonet
Artist not stated in the record
Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record

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

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

Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · 1880–91
Kosode Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–mid-18th century

Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record

Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880
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. 115 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2938186 matched · 40 examined · 17 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.