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. 24 shown for “Mirror in the style of the Tang dynasty (618-907)” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 13:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mirror in the style of the Tang dynasty (618-907)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th–20th century

Mirror (chien)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th-9th century

Mirror in the style of the Tang dynasty (618–907)
Artist not stated in the record

Fragment of Mirror. Lion and grape design
Artist not stated in the record · 618-907

Mirror
Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat) · ca. 1685–1700

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 618-907

Turban Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 618-907

Mirror with hunting scene
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Fitting in the form of a leaping lion
Artist not stated in the record · 618-907

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Figure of a monk
Artist not stated in the record · 618-907

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Fragment of Guanyin of Eleven Heads
Artist not stated in the record · 703

Turban Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century

Hair ornament. (with fragments)
Artist not stated in the record · 618-907

Turban Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Standing figure of Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · 8th-9th century

Turban Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Box and cover
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 8th century

Turban Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Head of a Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · first half 8th century
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. 2358 matched · 24 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. 7484731 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-08 13:40 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.