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. 23 shown for “Li Kan” — 63 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 13:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bamboo and rocks
Li Kan · dated 1318
Reaumuria songarica (Pall.) Maxim.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1923
Travelers among Streams and Mountains
Wu Li · probably 1670s
Dianthus chinensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1923
Bodhidharma crossing the Yangzi River on a reed
Li Yaofu · before 1317
Lespedeza davurica (Laxm.) Schindl.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1923
Fisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai
Li Jie · ca. 1170
Sedum beauverdii Raym.-Hamet
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1930
The Classic of Filial Piety
Li Gonglin · ca. 1085
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.
Artist not stated in the record
Travelers in a Wintry Forest
Unidentified artist · early 12th century
Cryptotaenia canadensis (L.) DC.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1939
Night-Shining White
Han Gan · ca. 750
Taxotrophis ilicifolia (Kurz) S. Vidal
Artist not stated in the record
Old Trees, Level Distance
Guo Xi · ca. 1080
Oreocnide tonkinensis (Gagnep.) Merr. & Chun
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Nov 1939
Narcissus
Zhao Mengjian · mid-13th century
Syzygium vestitum Merr. & L.M. Perry
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 2004
Medal Louis XII, King of France (r. 1498–15155), and Anne of Brittany (1476–1514)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1499
Ficedula parva
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Dec 1994
Summer Mountains
Qu Ding · ca. 1050
Landscapes Painted for Wang Kui
Wang Jian · 1674–76
Artemisia carruthii Alph. Wood ex Carruth.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1889
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. 23 matched · 23 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. 10319 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-29 13:26 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.