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. 15 shown for “Lu Guang” — 43 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Spring Dawn over the Elixir Terrace
Lu Guang · ca. 1369

Ritual wine ewer (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100-1050 BCE

Buddhist Temples amid Autumn Mountains
Unidentified artist · 14th–15th century

Aporosa octandra (Buch.-Ham. & D. Don) Vickery
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Mar 1920

Stag Hunt
Huang Zongdao

Lysionotus pauciflorus Maxim.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1989

Aeschynanthus buxifolius Hemsl.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1989

Houttuynia cordata Thunb.
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1925

Panicum sarmentosum Roxb.
Artist not stated in the record

Boea philippensis C.B. Clarke
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1989

Didymocarpus glandulosus var. minor (W.T. Wang) W.T. Wang
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1989

Lysionotus pauciflorus Maxim.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1989

Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merr.
Artist not stated in the record

Alstonia scholaris (L.) R. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 1920

Paeonia obovata Maxim.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1998
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1915 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-27 18:45 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.