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. 12 shown for “Takatori ware tea bowl” — 40 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Takatori ware tea bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1860

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

Tea bowl in Korean style, Karatsu ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1600-1620

Tea bowl named Ochiba (Fallen Leaves), Takatori or Yatsushiro ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1630-1650

Tea ceremony water jar, Takatori or Karatsu ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1598-1610

Tea caddy imitating Takatori ware
Artist not stated in the record · 18th-19th century

Tea caddy, katatsuki type
Artist not stated in the record · 1624-1688

Takatori ware tea ceremony water jar, Higashi Sarayama kiln
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1868

Bowl, Takatori ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1600-1630

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

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

Tea caddy, katatsuki type
Artist not stated in the record · 1700-1860
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 33182 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 08:36 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.