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 “Tea bowl with decoration of chrysanthemums and wavy lines” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:59 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 with decoration of chrysanthemums and wavy lines
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th century

Waste Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Sugar Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

Glass garland bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Coffeepot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

Bowl with inscription and chrysanthemums and tortoiseshell decoration
Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Teapot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

Bowl decorated with phoenixes, clouds, and chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century
Kettle on Stand from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

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

Tea bowl with design of chrysanthemums
Nin'ami Dohachi 仁阿弥道八 (1783-1855) · 1805-1842

Bowl
Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1877–85

Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · 1880–91

Service vessel with bamboo, plum blossoms, butterflies, and birds
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Tea bowl with design of autumn grasses
Kashu Mimpei (1796-1871) · mid 19th century

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

Ice Cream Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Clog-shaped tea bowl (kutsu-gata chawan) with plum blossoms and geometric patterns
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Bowl and cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Bowl with imaginary composite flowers
Artist not stated in the record

Bowl and cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Altar bowl with Tibetan inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Tea Bowl and Saucer with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1720–1730
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. 478 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3140309 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 17:59 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.