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 “Mei Qing” — 24 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:18 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.
Strolling in a misty valley
Mei Qing · 1649
Boating beneath Echo Hill
Mei Qing · datable to 1673
Landscapes after Ancient Masters
Mei Qing · 1693
Woman at her dressing table
Leng Mei · early 18th century
Peaks of Mount Huang
Mei Qing
Small dwelling in a dense grove of trees
Chen Mei · 1730
Mei Cheng Sitting Alone
Lu Zhi
Landscapes after old masters
Wang Hui · dated 1692
Wall panel with stone paintings
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
River Scene in Winter
Unidentified artist · dated 1661
The Sixteen Luohans
Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) · dated 1667
Basin
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1774
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. 41 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 2026-08-26 20:18 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.