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 “China tea cups from the Rock Rest Tourist Home” — 19 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:25 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.

Landscapes with poems
Gong Xian · 1688

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

Tea service
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1752–55

The Classic of Filial Piety
Li Gonglin · ca. 1085

Eight views of the Yellow Mountains
Zheng Min · 1681

Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao Entering the Tiantai Mountains
Zhao Cangyun

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
Sesson Shūkei · 1550s

Odes of the State of Bin
Ma Hezhi · mid-12th century

Wangchuan Villa
Wang Yuanqi · dated 1711

Landscapes after old masters
Wang Hui · dated 1674 and 1677

Fisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai
Li Jie · ca. 1170

Cloudy Mountains
Fang Congyi · ca. 1360–70
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. 19 matched · 19 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 17:25 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.