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 “Tobacco Pouch and Pipe Case” — 56 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Tobacco Pouch and Pipe Case
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Tobacco Pouch and Pipe Case
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Tobacco pipe with case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Tobacco Pouch and Pipe with Netsuke of Freshwater Pearl in Gold Mount
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Pipe and Pipe Case with Tobacco Pouch
Shibata Zeshin · early 19th century
Tobacco Set
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Tobacco Pouch and Pipe
Kubo Shunman · 1813

Case for Two Pipes
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Tobacco bag with pipe-stem case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Pipe and Tobacco Pouch From the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1
Kubo Shunman · ca. 1810s

Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Tobacco bag
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 2 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. 1473525 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 23:24 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.