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 “Satsuma ware tea bowl” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tea bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

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

Tea bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

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

Shino Tea Bowl with Bridge and Shrine, Known as “Bridge of the Gods” (Shinkyō)
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

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

Satsuma ware jar, White Satsuma type
Artist not stated in the record · 1650-1750

Tea Caddy (Chaire)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1820

Tea bowl in the shape of an Ido tea bowl, Hagi ware
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th-mid 19th century
Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

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

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 19th–mid-19th century

Tea bowl in style of Hon'ami Koetsu, unknown Raku ware workshop
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Tea jar
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Hagi ware tea bowl in the shape of a Korean tea bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 18th-19th century

Tea jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1750

Tea bowl in mishima style, Karatsu ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1630-1650

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1800

Tea bowl with indented rim, Hagi ware
Artist not stated in the record · mid 17th century

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1800

Hagi ware tea bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 18th-mid 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. 146 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 33351 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 02:49 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.