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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. 23 shown for “Ruyi scepter with poem composed by the Qianlong Emperor” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 16:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ruyi scepter with poem composed by the Qianlong Emperor
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century
Two fighting water buffaloes
Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century
Ruyi scepter with poem composed by the Qianlong Emperor
Artist not stated in the record
Sakyamuni on an elephant
Formerly attributed to Su Hanchen (active early to mid-12th century) · 16th-17th century
Archaic-style vase with poem composed by the Qianlong Emperor
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Flavia Domitilla, Wife of the Emperor Vespasian, in escutcheon
Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1760
Rock-form ornament with poem composed by the Qianlong Emperor
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century
Food vessel (ding)
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century BCE
Vase with Poems Composed by the Qianlong Emperor
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
A breath of spring 春消息圖
Zou Fulei 鄒復雷 (active mid-14th century) · 1360
The Annunciation
Hans Memling · 1480–89
The Chinese Emperor Minghuang and his concubine Yang Guifei, with attendants on a terrace
Kano Eitoku 狩野永徳 (1543-1590) · 16th century
Ruyi scepter
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Cushion cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Napoleon Bonaparte
Auguste G. L. Boucher-Desnoyers, 1779 - 1857 · n.d.a.
"Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Dark Palace on Saturday", Folio 23v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · ca. 1430
Scepter for Papal Ceremonies
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century
Vase with magnolia, crab apple, and peony
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Scenes from the life of the Ming Huang Emperor and Yang Guifei (one of a pair with F1901.20)
Kano Mitsunobu (ca. 1565-1608) · late 16th-early 17th century
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50
Scenes from the life of the Ming Huang Emperor and Yang Guifei (one of a pair with F1901.21)
Kano Mitsunobu (ca. 1565-1608) · late 16th-early 17th century
Album of illustrated cotton production and poems composed by the Qianlong Emperor
Artist not stated in the record · late 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. 97 matched · 24 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. 1502234 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 16:12 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.