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. 22 shown for “Fang Yulu” — 50 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ink Tablet with Black Stag Motif
Fang Yulu · late 19th–early 20th century

Vernonia angustifolia var. mohrii S.B. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1899

Ink Cake with Children at Play
Fang Yulu · late 19th–early 20th century

Jasminum subhumile W.W. Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · May 1923
Ink Tablet Decorated with Emblems of Investiture
Fang Yulu · dated 1576

Berlandiera pumila (Michx.) Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1899

Mountains of the Heart (Kyōchūzan)
Kameda Bōsai · 1816

Polypremum procumbens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1899 to 18 Aug 1899

Ink Tablet Decorated with Five Pines
Cheng Junfang · late 19th–early 20th century

Acanthospermum australe (Loefl.) Kuntze
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1899 to 18 Aug 1899

Ink Tablet with Tang Mirror Design
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

Dryopteris serratodentata (Bedd.) Hayata
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1930

Ink Tablet with Peach Tree
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century
Paullinia clavigera Schltdl.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Dec 2008

Ink Tablet with Thousand-Year Fungus Motif
Cheng Junfang · late 19th–early 20th century

Rhododendron changii (W.P. Fang) W.P. Fang
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1946

Ink Tablet
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Rhododendron changii (W.P. Fang) W.P. Fang
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Oct 1940

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

Rhododendron changii (W.P. Fang) W.P. Fang
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Nov 1946

Acer gracile W.P. Fang
Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1930

Deutzia omeiense Fang sp. nov. ined.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1930
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2504 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-27 08:05 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.