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. 20 shown for “Formerly attributed to Fang Chunnian (ca. 1225-1264)” — 48 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Miniature Landscape
Unidentified artist

The Peach Festival of the Queen Mother of the West
Formerly attributed to Fang Chunnian (ca. 1225-1264) · 17th-18th century

Palace ladies bathing children
Unidentified artist · 11th century

Cupid Resting, after a painting formerly attributed to Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669 · ca. 1660

Wind and Water: Landscape in the Style of Mi Fu
Unidentified artist

Girl seated at an embroidery frame
Formerly attributed to Zhou Fang (傳)周昉 (ca. 730-ca. 800) · 15th century

Landscape
Unidentified artist

Woodcutter receiving a drink at a fishing boat
Formerly attributed to Fang Congyi (active 1340-1380) · 17th century

The Three Scholars
Unidentified artist

Christ and the Virgin with Patron Saints of Pistoia
Giacinto Gimignani, Italian, 1606 - 1681 · 1638

Triptych: The Last Judgment
Master of the Orléans Triptych · ca. 1500

Unidentified Man
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1856

Night-Shining White
Han Gan · ca. 750

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (Burleigh)
Unidentified Artist · 1589-1610

A Diplomatic Mission to the Jin
Yang Bangji · ca. late 1150s

Promenading ladies
Formerly attributed to Zhou Fang (傳)周昉 (ca. 730-ca. 800) · 14th century ?

Merremia yunnanensis (Courchet & Gagnep.) R.C. Fang
Artist not stated in the record · May 1922 to Jun 1922

Merremia yunnanensis (Courchet & Gagnep.) R.C. Fang
Artist not stated in the record · May 1922 to Jun 1922

Alpinia bambusiflora C.F. Liang & D. Fang
Artist not stated in the record · 1932 to 1933

Hercules Holding a Club
Giuseppe Cesari, Italian, born Arpino, Italy 1568-died Rome, Italy 1640
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 927592 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-28 17:44 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.