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 “Gu Jue” — 60 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Brush holder with scene of “Ode to the Pavilion of the Inebriated Old Man”
Gu Jue · late 17th century

Campylopus acrocaulon (Müll. Hal.) Paris
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1918

Letter
Song Jue · early 17th century

Tessaria integrifolia Ruiz & Pav.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1906

Letter
Song Jue · early 17th century

Mahonia duclouxiana Gagnep.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1920 to 6 Nov 1920

Ritual Wine Vessel (Jue)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Senna obtusifolia (L.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1932 to Sep 1932

Ritual Wine Beaker (Gu)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Combretum indicum (L.) DeFilipps
Artist not stated in the record

Ritual Wine Vessel (Jiao)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Oxalis corniculata var. villosa (M. Bieb.) Hohen.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1885

Ritual Wine Cup (Zhi)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Passiflora pallida L.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jan 1937

Ritual Wine Cup (Zhi)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Gus Hartz
José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880-85

Ritual Wine Container (Yu)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Abies nephrolepis (Trautv.) Maxim.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1995

Ritual Altar Table (Jin)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Buddleja sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 2009

Ritual Ladle (Dou)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Cenchrus flaccidus (Griseb.) Morrone
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1934

Ritual Wine Container (Yu)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th century BCE

Achnatherum sibiricum (L.) Keng ex Tzvelev
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1934
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. 20 matched · 20 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. 860 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 08:01 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.