OpenTwo 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. 23 shown for “Sō Shiseki” — 51 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sō Shiseki Picture Album (Sō Shiseki gafu) 宋紫石画譜
Sō Shiseki 宋紫石 · 1764
Eriogonum cernuum Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1969
Birds and Flowers
Sō Shiseki · 18th century
Gilia cana subsp. speciformis A.D. Grant & V.E. Grant
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1969
Bird among Camellias in Snow
Sō Shiseki · mid-18th century
Phacelia crenulata var. funerea J.W. Voss in Munz
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1969
Case (Inrō) with Design of Seated Tiger in Rain (obverse); Bamboo with Inscription (reverse)
Sō Shiseki · 19th century
"Is It So Nominated in the Bond?"
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1860
The Daoist Immortal Liu Hai and Peonies
Sō Shiseki · 18th century, after 1770s
Pedilanthus tithymaloides (L.) Poit.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Dec 1964
Flowers and Goldfish
Sō Shizan · 18th century
Ne-i-so-meh
Elbridge Ayer Burbank, born Harvard, IL 1858-died San Francisco, CA 1949 · 1904
Blossoming Cherry Trees
Sakai Hōitsu · ca. 1805
Thou Art So Near, and Yet, So Far
Vance, Fred T. · 1875
Peacocks and Peonies
Tani Bunchō · 1820
Hibiscus kirkii Mast.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1951
Amaranthus and Mynah Bird
Kakutei (Kaigan Jōkō)
Penstemon parryi A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Apr 1939
Orchid
Kakutei (Kaigan Jōkō) · mid-18th century
Anoda paniculata Hochr.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Oct 1982
Su Shi Riding a Donkey
Bokudō Sojun · early 15th century
Clematis parviflora DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 1934 to 1935
Asclepias nummularia Torr.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Apr 1939
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14580 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 19:48 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.