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 “Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese-Style Mountain Landscape with Buildings beside Rocks” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:43 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.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese-Style Mountain Landscape with Buildings beside Rocks
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese-Style Buildings in a Mountain Landscape (obverse); Boats on Waves in a Mountain Landscape (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE
Case (Inrō) with Design of Building beside Winding River in Mountain Landscape and Full Moon
Artist not stated in the record · 19th–20th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Thatched Buildings Beside River Landscape
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Buildings in Mountain Landscape
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese-Style Landscape with a Building (obverse); Waterfall with Cloud Bands (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
Case (Inrō) with Design of Thatched Farm Buildings in Fields and Mountain Landscape with Cloud Bands
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of Sage Seated on Rocks beside a Tree, Exhaling His Spirit (obverse); His Spirit Walking on Air (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Wangchuan Villa
Wang Yuanqi · dated 1711
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. 28 matched · 24 examined · 0 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 2026-08-27 10:43 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.