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 “Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968)” — 50 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Birds and Flowers
Unidentified artist

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

The Daming Palace
Wang Zhenpeng · early 15th century

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

Stag Hunt
Huang Zongdao

A branch of loquats and a bird
Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968) · 1368-1644

Bird on a Camellia Branch
Unidentified artist · ca. 1000

Mandarin ducks under smartweed
Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968) · 15th-18th century

Copy of Tang Ming Huang Instructing the Prince
Unidentified artist

Sparrows feeding their young
Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968) · 17th century?

River Landscape with Thirteen Inscriptions
Unidentified artist

Flowers, plants, and insects
Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968) · 16th century

”Abiding nowhere, the awakened mind arises”
Musō Soseki · early to mid-14th century

Hedera sinensis (Tobler) Hand.-Mazz.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 2010

Night-Shining White
Han Gan · ca. 750

Dryopteris atrata (Wall. ex Kunze) Ching
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 2010

The Classic of Filial Piety
Li Gonglin · ca. 1085

Acorus tatarinowii Schott
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 2010

Landscape after a poem by Wang Wei
Tang Di · 1323

Zhongli Quan seeking the Dao
Formerly attributed to Sun Zhiwei (late 10th-early 11th century) · 15th century

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

Landscape: mountains and valleys
Formerly attributed to Huang Gongwang (1269-1354) · 16th-17th 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. 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. 926185 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 07:58 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.