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. 18 shown for “Song Jue” — 48 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Letter
Song Jue · early 17th century

Campylopus acrocaulon (Müll. Hal.) Paris
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1918

Letter
Song Jue · early 17th century

Tessaria integrifolia Ruiz & Pav.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1906

Horse and groom
Unidentified artist · 16th century

Mahonia duclouxiana Gagnep.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1920 to 6 Nov 1920

Going Upriver on the Qingming Festival
Unidentified artist

Senna obtusifolia (L.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1932 to Sep 1932

Sea and Sky at Sunrise
Unidentified artist · 17th century

Combretum indicum (L.) DeFilipps
Artist not stated in the record

Drunk in Autumn Woods
Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) · ca. 1702

Oxalis corniculata var. villosa (M. Bieb.) Hohen.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1885

Riverbank
Dong Yuan

Passiflora pallida L.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jan 1937

Ritual wine warmer with taotie
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 11th century BCE

Sing a Song of Sixpence
Artist not stated in the record · 1890–99

Handkerchief
Artist not stated in the record · 1790s
Bird-man on high poem by Harriet Gaylord ; music by Frank H. Grey
Grey, Frank H. 1883-1951 · 1921
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4274 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 2026-08-28 11:20 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.