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 “Brush holder with Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Brush holder with Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival
Ike no Taiga · ca. 1763

Brush holder with scene of “Ode to the Pavilion of the Inebriated Old Man”
Zhang Xihuang · early 17th century

Brush Holder with Literary Gathering
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion
Qian Gong · dated 1607

Orchid Pavilion Gathering
Ike no Taiga · 1765

Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion
Qian Gu · 1560

Poems from the Pavilion of True Meaning
Zhou Lianggong · datable to 1663 or later

Orchid Pavilion Gathering in Blue and Green
Tsubaki Kakoku · 1844

Landscapes with poems
Gong Xian · 1688
Water Jar with Poetry Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Orchid Pavilion by a Winding Stream
Hara Zaichū · 1829
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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 23:01 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.