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. 18 shown for “Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with Bird on a Rock under Willow Tree” — 46 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:01 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 Bird on a Rock under Willow Tree
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–50s

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

Sake Bottle (Tokkuri)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

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

Landscapes with poems
Gong Xian · 1688

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

Bottle with Pine Tree
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

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

Wangchuan Villa
Wang Yuanqi · dated 1711

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

Ode on Returning Home
Qian Xuan · 14th–15th century

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

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

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1806

Palampore
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

A group of geese under snow-covered willow and blossoming trees
Formerly attributed to Ma Lin (active early to mid-13th century) · 16th-17th century

Moon Cape (Tsuki-no-misaki) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

Sheep and shepherd-boy under a willow
Formerly attributed to Li Song (傳)李嵩 (late 12th-early 13th century) · 1368-1644
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3006291 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-28 19:01 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.