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 “Robe (kosode) with landscape and seasonal flowers” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:19 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.

Robe (kosode) with landscape and seasonal flowers
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Beauty of the Kanbun Era
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Birds and Flowers
Kano Motonobu · mid-16th century

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1520

Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Islands
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th century

Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Autumn Grasses
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 18th century

Shield with Hunting and Landscape Vignettes
Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Robe (Kosode) with Spring Rice Fields
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–first half 19th century

Robe (Kosode) with Pines and Interlocking Squares
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th century

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515
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. 214 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 22:19 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.