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 “Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with “Three Friends of Winter” (Pine, Bamboo, and Plum)” — 55 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with “Three Friends of Winter” (Pine, Bamboo, and Plum)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Shidoro ware sake bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1880

Gourd-Shaped Bottle with Deer and Crane in Landscape
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Birds in wintry trees
Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 16th-17th century

Dish with Three Friends of Winter
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Birds, plum blossoms, and bamboo in winter
Formerly attributed to Ma Lin (active early to mid-13th century) · 16th century

Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Pine (front) and Plum with Bamboo (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40s

Taizan ware sake bottle for domestic Shinto shrine
Taizan Yohei · 1800-1868

Kimono with Pines, Bamboo, and Plum
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 20th century

Sake bottle, Bizen ware, Imbe type
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th-early 18th century

Three Friends
Xugu (Zhu Huairen) · 1894

Bizen ware sake bottle in the shape of a wild duck
Terami Enkichi (died 1838) · early 19th century

Bottle Decorated with "Three Friends" Pine, Bamboo and Plum
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Two riders searching for plum blossoms
Formerly attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230) · 16th century

Dish with the Three Friends of Winter
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–early 17th century

Sake bottle, Seto-related or Kyoto-related ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1880

Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Mount Penglai
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Ofuke or Seto ware sake bottle
Kato Soshiro (1802-1877) · 1831-1868

Cosmetic Box (mayudzukuri-bako) with Pine, Bamboo, Plum, and Tokugawa Family Crest on Wood-Grain Ground
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Sake bottle
Decoration attributed to Kano Tangen (1679-1767) · 18th century

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mount Hōrai
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century–first half 19th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Jar decorated with auspicious characters amid plants
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Kimono
Artist not stated in the record · 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. 15 matched · 15 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. 3151861 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 08:40 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.