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. 12 shown for “Lü Ji 呂紀” — 24 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 01:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Peacocks, Pine Tree, and Peonies
Lü Ji 呂紀 · probably 19th century
Mandarin ducks and cotton rose hibiscus
Lü Ji · late 15th century
Autumn landscape with egrets and ducks
Lü Ji · late 15th century
Collared Crows on Winter Prunus
Unidentified artist
The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai
Wang Hui · datable to 1698
Planting Chrysanthemums
Lu Zhi · 16th century
Spring Dawn over the Elixir Terrace
Lu Guang · ca. 1369
Seal with knob in the shape of a wheel
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1424
Lu Ji’s Essay on Literature
Wen Zhengming · dated 1544 and 1547
Grain serving vessel (gui)
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century BCE
Poems from the Pavilion of True Meaning
Zhou Lianggong · datable to 1663 or later
Finches and bamboo
Emperor Huizong · early 12th 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. 82 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 01:37 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.