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 Meng Xian (active 11th century)” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

An immortal gathering herbs and fungus
Formerly attributed to Meng Xian (active 11th century) · 17th century

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

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

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

Three goats under a flowering plum tree
Formerly attributed to Yi Yuanji (active mid- to late 11th century) · 16th-17th century

Virgin and Child
Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century) · ca. 1480–90

Pheasants and snow-covered plum blossoms
Formerly attributed to Ge Shouchang (active late 11th century) · 15th-18th century

Virgin and Child
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60

Mandarin ducks and flowers
Formerly attributed to Xu Chongsi (active 11th century) · 17th century

Portrait of a Woman, possibly Ginevra d'Antonio Lupari Gozzadini
Maestro delle Storie del Pane · 1494?

Washing the white elephant
Formerly attributed to Zhao Lingjun (active late 11th century) · 16th-17th century

Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini
Maestro delle Storie del Pane · 1494(?)

Panthaka, the Tenth Venerable Luohan 半託迦尊者像
Formerly attributed to Qian Yi (傳)錢易 (active early 11th century) · 1345

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

Willow, Geese, and Kingfisher
Formerly attributed to Cui Bai (active mid- to late 11th century) · 16th century?

The Daming Palace
Wang Zhenpeng · early 15th century

Mending clothes in the early morning sun
Formerly attributed to Li Yuanji (active mid- to late 11th century) · 15th-16th century

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Old woman on ox, with herd-boy and calf
Formerly attributed to Goulong Shuang (active late 11th century) · 1368-1644

Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · late 1640s

Indet. sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 2006

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891

Lycopodium japonicum Thunb.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 2006
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. 154 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. 960268 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 13:27 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.