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. 22 shown for “Water Dropper in the Shape of a Chrysanthemum” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 09:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Water Dropper in the Shape of a Chrysanthemum
Artist not stated in the record · first half 19th century

Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Water dropper in the shape of a rhinoceros
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Chrysanthemum Pattern Fish Knife
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Painter of the Woolly Satyrs · ca. 450 BCE

Chrysanthemum Pattern Luncheon Fork
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Chrysanthemum Pattern Dinner Knife
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Water Dropper in the form of a Seated Demon
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th century

Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Water Dropper in the Form of a Kneeling Hunchbacked Chinese Man
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th century

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

Tea or hot water urn
John McMullin · 1799

Chrysanthemum Pattern Mustard Spoon
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Water-Dropper (Suiteki) in Raccoon Dog Shape
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Chrysanthemum Pattern Salt Spoon
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Water Dropper in the Form of a Kneeling Man
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–ca. mid-16th century

Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Glass snake-thread dropper flask
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century CE

Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork
Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

Cosmetic Box (Tebako) with Chrysanthemum Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 15th century

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
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. 1058 matched · 24 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. 7484897 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-10 09:02 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.