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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 “Pair of Mandarin Ducks Swimming” — 59 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of Mandarin Ducks Swimming
Artist not stated in the record
Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810
Inkstone and cover with mandarin ducks in a lotus pond
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century
Mandarin ducks under smartweed
Formerly attributed to Xu Xi (active mid-10th century) · 16th century
Comb Tops
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century
Rank badge
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Pair of Ducks Swimming
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai · 19th century
On one side mandarin ducks; on the other, poems, bamboos, storks, etc
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Vase decorated with auspicious animals
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
On one side mandarin ducks; on the other, poems, bamboos, storks, etc
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Pair of Mandarin Ducks and Iris Flowers
Kubo Shunman
Mandarin ducks
Maruyama Okyo 円山応挙 (1733-1795) · 18th century
Pair of Mandarin Ducks and Iris Flowers
Kubo Shunman
On one side mandarin ducks; on the other, poems, bamboos, storks, etc
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
“A Lovely Garland” (Tamakazura), from The Tale of Genji
Tosa Mitsuyoshi 土佐光吉 · early 17th century
Mandarin ducks and flowers
Formerly attributed to Xu Chongsi (active 11th century) · 17th century
Mandarin ducks and cotton rose hibiscus
Lü Ji · late 15th century
On one side mandarin ducks; on the other, poems, bamboos, storks, etc
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Incense Container (Kōgō) with Camellia and Mandarin Ducks
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Mandarin ducks in a landscape
Kano Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) · mid 17th-early 18th century
Pair of Incense Boxes (Kōgō) in the Shape of Mandarin Ducks
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 19th century
Plum blossoms, camellias, and mandarin ducks
Artist not stated in the record · 15th-16th century
Pair of table screens with flowers, birds, and poems
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Mandarin ducks under smartweed
Formerly attributed to Huang Quan (903-968) · 15th-18th 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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 1 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. 2875486 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-01 07:09 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.