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. 17 shown for “Mi Wanzhong” — 46 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Couplet from Song Zhiwen’s poem “Ascending the Pavilion at the Monastery of Meditative Concentration”
Mi Wanzhong · late 16th or early 17th century

Poa secunda J. Presl
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 2023

Azure Cliff with Red Maples
Wu Bin · dated 1603

Krascheninnikovia lanata (Pursh) A. Meeuse & A.Smit
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 2023

The Sixteen Luohans
Wu Bin · dated 1591

Artemisia tridentata var. tridentata
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 2023

Poem by Wang Wei
Dong Qichang · after 1632

Dalea ornata (Hook.) Eaton & Wright
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 2019

Chinese Poem on Zen Meditation
Feiyin Tongrong · mid-17th century

Lupinus sericeus Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 2023

Erigeron linearis (Hook.) Piper
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 2023

Purshia tridentata (Pursh) DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 2023

Polygonum bistortoides Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 2012

Boykinia major A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 2012

Aegilops sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1992

Viola purpurea var. aurea (Kellogg) M.S. Baker ex Jeps.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 2023

Lomatium nevadense (S. Watson) J.M. Coult. & Rose
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 2023
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 210349 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-28 18:55 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.