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. 23 shown for “Mi Youren” — 52 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cloudy Mountains
Mi Youren · before 1200

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

Clearing after Rain over Streams and Mountains
Wang Hui · dated 1662

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

Landscapes
Dai Benxiao · late 17th century

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

Landscapes after historical painters
Yun Xiang · datable to 1638 or 1650

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

Qu Yuan and the Fisherman
Shen Hao · mid-17th century

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

Eight landscapes
Lu Han · 1699

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

Landscapes after Ancient Masters
Mei Qing · 1693

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

Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu
Various artists · 1666–80

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

Wangchuan Villa
Wang Yuanqi · dated 1711

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

Grooms and horses
Zhao Mengfu · dated 1296 and 1359

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

Landscapes after old masters
Wang Hui · dated 1674 and 1677

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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 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 2026-08-27 03:14 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.