OpenTwo 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. 14 shown for “Gan Ku” — 44 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tiger
Gan Ku · dated 1790
Bamboo stems with branches and foliage
Kishi Ganku 岸駒 (1749-1838) · 19th century
Tiger
Gan Ku · early 19th century
Chloris gayana Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1993
Jurōjin
Gan Ku (Kishi Ganku) · 1838
Eleusine tristachya (Lam.) Lam.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1993
Birds on a PlumTree
Gan Ku · late 1770s–early 1780s
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1993
Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1993
Thalassia hemprichii Asch.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1967
Themeda triandra Forssk.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1993
Paspalum urvillei Steud.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1993
Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K. Simon & S.W.L. Jacobs
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1993
Postmark from Ramat Gan Palestine on paper on album page
Artist not stated in the record · 1947
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4069 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 08:27 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.