OpenTwo 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 “Chinese Garden” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 18:12 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.
Guqin (古琴 )
Prince Lu · 1634
Guqin (古琴 )
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–mid 18th century
Reciting Poetry in a Garden
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 17th century
Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Wang Gai
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock
James Cox · 1766
Bowl with children in a garden
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century
Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century
Wine Drinking in a Spring Garden
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1430
Chinese man with a bird
Meissen Manufactory · 1725–30
Vase with scholars in a garden
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century
Brush holder with scholars in a garden
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
The Chinese Gardener
John Ingram · 1741–63
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. 603 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 2026-09-01 18:12 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.