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. 24 shown for “Duke Wen of Jin recovering his state” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Duke Wen of Jin Recovering His State
Li Tang · mid-12th century

Duke Wen of Jin recovering his state
Artist not stated in the record · 16th-17th century

Dish with scene of Duke Ling of Jin
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century
Nekemias grossedentata (Hand.-Mazz.) J. Wen & Z. L. Nie
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

Poem Written in a Boat on the Wu River
Mi Fu · ca. 1095

Aralia dasyphylla Miq.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 2004

A Diplomatic Mission to the Jin
Yang Bangji · ca. late 1150s
Nekemias rubifolia (Wall.) J. Wen & Z. L. Nie
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

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

Causonis mollis (M.A. Lawson ex Wall.) Parmar & J. Wen
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 2023

Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)
Francesco Francia · 1510
Aralia dasyphylloides (Hand.-Mazz.) J. Wen
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru
Huang Tingjian · ca. 1095
Causonis mollis (M.A. Lawson ex Wall.) Parmar & J. Wen
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

Old Trees, Level Distance
Guo Xi · ca. 1080
Nyssa sinensis Oliv. in Hook.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

Pear Blossoms
Unidentified · ca. 1280
Cissus assamica (M.A. Lawson) Craib
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

Poem of Farewell to Liu Man
Yelü Chucai · dated 1240
Aralia finlaysoniana (Wall. ex G. Don) Seem.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

Frontispiece and Colophons to the Album "Five Old Men of Suiyang"
Various Scholars
Garcinia multiflora Champ. ex Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 2023

Vimalakirti and the Doctrine of Nonduality
Wang Zhenpeng · dated 1308

Aralia dasyphylloides (Hand.-Mazz.) J. Wen
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 2023
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. 25 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. 6414416 matched · 40 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 06:16 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.