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 “Formerly attributed to Han Huang (723-787)” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s

Evaluating a horse
Formerly attributed to Han Huang (723-787) · 1368-1644

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Riding through snow in search of plum blossoms
Formerly attributed to Han Huang (723-787) · 17th century

The Annunciation
Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Returning home after harvest
Formerly attributed to Han Huang (723-787) · 17th century?

Katharina Merian
Hans Brosamer

Fragment, possibly arrowhead
Artist not stated in the record · 770 BCE-9 CE

Chair (Sgabello)
Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Fragment, possibly arrowhead
Artist not stated in the record · 770 BCE-9 CE

Night-Shining White
Han Gan · ca. 750

Scabbard ornament: slide
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-9 CE

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

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

Virgin and Child
Hans Memling · 1480–85

Landscape: mountains and valleys
Formerly attributed to Huang Gongwang (1269-1354) · 16th-17th century

Commode
Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder · ca. 1735–40

Drake and lotus flowers
Formerly attributed to Huang Jucai (933-after 993) · 1279-1368

Charity
Claudius Floris · 1536–1547/48

Eight mynah birds with bamboo and orchids
Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968) · 16th century

Majas on a Balcony
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810

Birds, willow tree, and flowers
Follower of Lü Ji (ca. 1420-ca. 1505) · 15th-16th century

Lupona (royal seat)
Ngongo ya Chintu, formerly known as the "Buli Master" · ca. 1840–1870

The thatched hut at Liangchang
Formerly attributed to Huang Gongwang (1269-1354) · 17th-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. 273 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 935983 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 06:17 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.