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 Pine Boughs and Cherry Blossoms” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Cherry Blossom Viewing
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858
Piece from a Kosode with Pine Boughs and Cherry Blossoms
Artist not stated in the record

Design for the Bottom Corner of a Woven Fabric
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1830

Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Cypress Fence
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Tracings of Four Flower Boughs for Embroidery
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

Ewer (Suichū) with Cherry Blossoms and Picnic Curtain
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Design for a Woven Fabric
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

Cabinet
George A. Schastey & Co. · 1884–85

Kimono
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Cabinet
Alexander Roux · ca. 1866

Design for a Printed Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20

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

Cherry Blossom Viewing
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858
Piece from a Kosode with Pine Boughs
Artist not stated in the record

Design for a Woven Fabric
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

Cherry Blossom Viewing at Itsukushima and Yoshino
Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Design for Three Woven Flower Boughs
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

The Brown Havannah Pine
George Brookshaw · 1807

Design for a Woven Fabric
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1830
Piece from a Kosode with Plum Blossoms and Partial Pine Bough
Artist not stated in the record

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Fabric
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1840
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. 77 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. 2961766 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-29 00:47 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.