Images / art

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 Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230)” — 32 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:06 UTC · fetched live for this request

Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.

Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.

Miniature Landscape

Unidentified artist

Public domainThe Met

Landscape: mountains, stream, and pine-trees

Formerly attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230) · 16th century?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Mountain Market, Clearing Mist

Xia Gui · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met

Fishing with cormorants

Formerly attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Windswept lakeshore

Xia Gui · 13th century

Public domainThe Met

Awaiting the ferry

Formerly attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Returning Home in a Driving Rain

Xia Gui · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met

Rapids in a mountain valley

Formerly attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230) · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Second half of Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi River

Unidentified artist · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met

Landscape: two men sitting under a tree beside a waterfall

Formerly attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230) · 14th-15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

First half of Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi River

Unidentified artist · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met

Two riders searching for plum blossoms

Formerly attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Summer Mountains

Qu Ding · ca. 1050

Public domainThe Met

Homeward boat on a clear river day

Formerly attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Landscape after Xia Gui (active ca. 1195–1230), from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

Wang Gai · first edition printed in 1679

Public domainThe Met

Water buffaloes and herd-boys crossing a stream

Formerly attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230) · 15th-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Night-Shining White

Han Gan · ca. 750

Public domainThe Met

Water buffalo and herdboy under willows 柳蔭牧牛圖

Traditionally attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230) · 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Mountain Landscape

Tenshō Shūbun · early–mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met

Watching the waves

Traditionally attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230) · 15th-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Boats Moored in Wind and Rain

Unidentified artist · 13th century

Public domainThe Met

Distant mountains beyond a river

Formerly attributed to Jing Hao (傳)荊浩 (ca. 870-ca.935) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Towing a Boat in a Rainstorm

Unidentified artist · late 12th century

Public domainThe Met

Hills along a river

Traditionally attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

What was queried

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. 19 matched · 19 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. 13 matched · 13 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 2026-09-06 03:06 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.

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Section 01Character index0 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.