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. 13 shown for “Huang Tingjian” — 59 records examined, 45 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru
Huang Tingjian · ca. 1095

Cyclea ochiaiana (Yamam.) S.F. Huang & T. C. Huang
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jan 1918

Poem for Hanwen
Shen Zhou · dated 1493

Summer retreat in the eastern grove
Wen Zhengming · calligraphy datable to 1512

Winter Journey in the North
Zhu Yunming

Four Admirers
Kano Tsunenobu · late 17th–early 18th century

Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain
Emperor Gaozong · after 1162

Prose Poem on Fishing
Zhu Yunming · dated 1507

Awaiting the Emperor's Return from the Southern Suburbs
Wen Zhengming

Poem of Farewell to Liu Man
Yelü Chucai · dated 1240

Poem in Chinese about Sugar
Kokan Shiren · 14th century

Chinese Poem to Celebrate a Senior Monk’s Sixtieth Birthday
Duzhan Xingying (Japanese: Dokutan Shōkei) · late 17th–early 18th century

Rosy Sunset
Wen Tong · 16th 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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 6 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. 1318 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:58 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.