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. 15 shown for “Qi Zhijia” — 43 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Landscape with fisherman
Qi Zhijia · 1643

Ribes hunanense C.Y. Yang & C. J. Qi
Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 2010

Landscape after Ni Zan
Qi Zhijia · dated 1651

Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannanensis C. Qi & Z. Yuan ex S.S. Renner
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 2017

Pavilion amongst Wintry Trees after Ni Zan
Qi Zhijia · dated 1661
Phyllanthus matsumurae Hayata
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1993

Two fighting water buffaloes
Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

Impatiens balsamina L.
Artist not stated in the record

Elatostema atroviride W.T. Wang
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 2002

Pellionia radicans (Siebold & Zucc.) Wedd.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 2002
Adinandra millettii Benth. & Hook. f. ex Hance
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1993

Elatostema nasutum Hook. f.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 2005

Hypericum japonicum Thunb.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1993

Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 1993

Carpinus cordata Blume
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 2010
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 204 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-26 20:21 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.