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 “Mountain scene in the form of pine, cranes, and immortals” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mountain scene in the form of pine, cranes, and immortals
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Chrysanthemum crane
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Landscape carved in low relief
Artist not stated in the record · 1735-1796

Immortals
Hasegawa Sakon 長谷川左近 · ca. 1620s–30s

Discussing the Dao in the shade of pines 松陰論道圖
Follower of Yan Hui 顏輝 (late 13th-early 14th century) · 14th century

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

The five ancients
Formerly attributed to Li Congxun (active early 12th century) · 15th-early 16th century

The strange pines of Mount Tiantai
Dai Benxiao · 1687

Smoking Stand (Tabako-Bon)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Tapestry: a Daoist female Immortal and attendant under a pine
Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Sierras
The Schmitz-Horning Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1905 - 1960 · 1913–1914

"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1525

View of Lake Okanagan, British Columbia
Grafton Tyler Brown, American, 1841 - 1918 · 1882

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Carving
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Wooded Mountains at Dusk
Kuncan · dated 1666
Landscape with Daoist immortals in the mountains
Copy after Qiu Ying 仇英 (ca. 1494-1552) · 17th century

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Saint Michael and the Dragon
Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?) · ca. 1405

Female immortal with a basket
Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725
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. 367 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. 7483983 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 17:50 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.