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. 21 shown for “Satsuma ware serving bowl, Ryumonji kilns” — 51 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Black Seto (Seto-guro) Tea Bowl, named Iron Mallet (Tettsui)
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Satsuma ware serving bowl, Ryumonji kilns
Artist not stated in the record · 1790-1860

Bowl with Incised Lotus Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century or later

Tenmoku style tea bowl, Ryumonji kilns
Artist not stated in the record · 18th-19th century

Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Ryumonji ware sake flask
Artist not stated in the record · 17th-18th century

Bottle with Incised Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Satsuma ware tea bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1640-1660

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

White Satsuma ware tea bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1690-1750

Mold Fragment with Musicians
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Satsuma ware sake ewer
Artist not stated in the record · second half of 17th-18th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Satsuma ware vase
Artist not stated in the record · 18th-19th century

Dish with foliate rim
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Mino ware bowl with pedestal foot, Oribe style
Artist not stated in the record · 1620-1630

Plate with Calligraphic Decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

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

Satsuma ware tea caddy
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Kyoto ware individual serving bowl in shape of sedge hat, with mark "Kiyomizu"
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Karatsu ware individual food-serving cup, E-Karatsu type
Artist not stated in the record · 1596-1615
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 43074 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 00:45 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.