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 “Water-Dropper (Suiteki) in Raccoon Dog Shape” — 43 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:28 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 (Suiteki) in Raccoon Dog Shape
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Fork
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th to early 18th century

An Allegory
Domenico Guidobono · 1710–20

Dog in Feathered Hat and Ruffled Collar
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Tanuki (Racoon Dog) Viewing Its Reflection in Water
Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 · late 19th century

Knife
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Scarf pin with dog portrait
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

Standing Cup
Hans Olof Hellbom, active 1794–1819 · 1818

Bandbox lid fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

Teapot
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · mid- 18th century

Design for a Tureen
Johann Nepomuk · 1825-1835
Folding Knife From Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720–50
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7460982 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 19:28 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.