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 “Plate with Geese in Lotus Pond” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plate with Geese in Lotus Pond
Artist not stated in the record · 1660–80

Two geese feeding in a lotus pond
Traditionally attributed to Qian Xuan 錢選 (late 13th century) · 16th-17th century

Plate with Geese in a Lotus Pond
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Nymphaea lotus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Nov 1961

Jar with carp in lotus pond
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Lotus purshii
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1983

Desk (bonheur du jour)
Claude-Charles Saunier · ca. 1765–75

Knob with Escutcheon and Lock Mechanism
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Rafter finial in the shape of a dragon’s head and wind chime
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably July 1858

Foliated plate with lotus
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Flying Geese
Unidentified · ca. 1840

Flask with Lotus Pond
Artist not stated in the record · mid-14th century
People in Boat on Pond
Hussey, Walter J. · 1885-1910

Sutra Box (Kyōbako) with Lotus Pond
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Palace ladies by a lotus pond
Formerly attributed to Zhou Wenju (傳)周文矩 (active mid-10th century) · 18th century

Lotus
Artist not stated in the record

Schizothrix calcicola Gomont
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1944

Foliated plate with rocks, plants, and melons
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Dirinaria picta (Sw.) Schaer. & Clem.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 2016

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

Dirinaria applanata (Fée) D.D. Awasthi
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 2016

Plate
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Coccocarpia palmicola (Spreng.) Arv. & Galloway
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 2016
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. 150 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7463690 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 2026-08-27 07:28 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.