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 “Dish with the Chinese story of Sima Guang” — 15 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:35 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.
Dish with the Chinese story of Sima Guang
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1720
Cup and saucer with the Chinese story of Sima Guang
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730
Dish with the story of "Hob in the Well"
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755
Eight views of the Yellow Mountains
Zheng Min · 1681
Vimalakirti and the Doctrine of Nonduality
Wang Zhenpeng · dated 1308
Plate with scene from "Les Oies de Frère Philippe"
Nicolas Lancret · ca. 1745
"Virtue"
Hakuin Ekaku · mid-18th century
Platter with the story of Pan An
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Ink bamboo
Li Shan · dated 1749
Dish with scene of a family
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Dish with scholar by a lotus pond
Artist not stated in the record
Dish with a couple and phoenixes
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century
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. 15 matched · 15 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 2026-08-28 03:35 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.