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 “Fan fragment” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fan fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 664 BCE or later

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The upper portion from a palmiform-shaped fan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1640 B.C.

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Fragment of a Fan
Artist not stated in the record · probably 10th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Border Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 450–175 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Hieratic Papyrus fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1181 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Terracotta medallion
Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–early 3rd century CE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 300–100 BC

Kosode Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Tsujigahana Textile with Horizontal Stripes, Flowering Plants, Fans, Snowflakes, Clouds, and Bellflowers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 16th century

Lingnania chungii (McClure) McClure
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1925

Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · 650–600 BCE

Border
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Battle at Rokuhara, from The Tale of the Heiji Rebellion
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 14th century

Ardisia quinquegona var. hainanensis E. Walker
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1929
Piece from a Kosode with Fans and Cherry Blossoms
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–first half of the 18th century

Ardisia replicata E. Walker
Artist not stated in the record
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. 26 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 46608 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-01 13:44 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.