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. 20 shown for “Tea bowl, possibly Agano ware” — 48 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:14 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

Tenmoku tea bowl, possibly Agano ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1880

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

Tea bowl, possibly Agano ware
Artist not stated in the record · 1620-1650

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)
Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1752–53

Agano ware tea bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1630

Tea bowl decorated with chrysanthemums and wavy lines
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

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

Sugar Bowl
Thomas Shields · 1765–85

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

Waste Bowl
John Letelier Sr. · 1770–95

Agano or Shodai ware bowl
Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1860

Creamer
John Letelier Sr. · 1770–95

Tea bowl
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Teapot
John Letelier Sr. · 1770–95

Tea bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th-19th century

Tea bowl, possibly Karatsu ware
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Tea bowl, possibly Rakuzan ware
Artist not stated in the record · 17th-18th century

Hand-formed tea bowl, possibly Kyushu-related ware
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th-19th century

Tea bowl in hori-mishima style, possibly Hagi or Seto ware
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th-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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 76433 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 23:14 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.