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. 12 shown for “Immortal Liu Hai playing with a frog” — 24 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Immortal Liu Hai playing with a frog
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

The Daoist Immortal Liu Hai and Peonies
Sō Shiseki · 18th century, after 1770s

Snuff Bottle Depicting the Immortal Liu Hai
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Jizō Bosatsu Playing a Flute
Kano Tan'yū · mid-17th century

The Daoist Immortal Han Xiangzi
Liu Jun · undated, late 15th–early 16th century

Poem of Farewell to Liu Man
Yelü Chucai · dated 1240

Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao Entering the Tiantai Mountains
Zhao Cangyun

Flying Apsaras (Hiten)
Artist not stated in the record · late 11th to early 12th century

Six Jewel Rivers
Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Eight views of the Yellow Mountains
Zheng Min · 1681

Lions at the Stone Bridge of Mount Tiantai
Soga Shōhaku · 1779

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
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. 28 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 20:52 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.