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 “Tiered Box with Design of Bellflower and Autumn Grasses” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tiered Box with Design of Bellflower and Autumn Grasses
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1900

Stand with Autumn Grasses and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th century

Abstract autumn grass motif
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Sake Ewer (Hisage) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in Alternating Fields
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Bellflower Ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1823

Smith and Wesson .38 Caliber Safety Third Model Double-Action Revolver, serial no. 83097, with Case
Smith & Wesson · 1892–93

Designs for Flowers: Single Julienne, Pyramidal Bellflower, Artere Petal, White Lily, Yellow Tulip
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys
Jean-François Millet · 1872–73

Interior Detail of the Teatro Vaccai, Telentino
Giuseppe Lucatelli, Italian, 1751 – 1828 · 1790

Tiered Box with Design of Autumn Grasses
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Design for a Hanging Sacristy Cupboard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Autumn Grasses in Moonlight
Shibata Zeshin · second half of the 19th century

Hibiscus, maple and autumn wheat grass
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th century

Design for Mahogany Inlay Sideboard with Neo-Classical Motifs
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Design for a Case with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1790

Moon and Autumn Grasses
Tawaraya Sōtatsu · mid- to late 17th century

Elevation of a Fountain
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750
Case (Inrō) with Design of Grapevine
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Sutra Box (Kyōbako) with Sun and Clouds
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–early 15th century

Project for an Altar
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775
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. 156 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. 3451569 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-28 02:47 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.