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. 16 shown for “Storage Trunk (Nagamochi) with Family Crests, Pine, and Foliage Pattern” — 44 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Storage Trunk (Nagamochi) with Family Crests, Pine, and Foliage Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th century

Palampore
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Pemadumcook Pines, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 3, 1878

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680–1700

Palampore
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

Longcase clock with calendar and alarm
Ahasuerus II Fromanteel · ca. 1690–94

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–75

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

Horse wrapping cloth (umakake)
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Various Symbols Motif
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Abstract blossoms and kanoko pattern
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Pitcher
Jonas & Walley · 19th century

Tea Knife with Japanesque Style Pattern Engraved Handle
Wood & Hughes, New York, U.S.A., 1845 – 1899 · ca. 1875

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th 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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1579141 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-02 00:49 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.