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. 12 shown for “Traditionally attributed to Zhao Ji (1082-1135)” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 06:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Finches and bamboo
Emperor Huizong · early 12th century

Summer Mountains
Qu Ding · ca. 1050

Grooms and horses
Zhao Mengfu · dated 1296 and 1359

Spring Morning at the Palace of the Han Emperors
Unidentified artist · 17th century

Twin Pines, Level Distance
Zhao Mengfu · ca. 1310

Farewell by a Stream on a Clear Day
Zhao Yuan · second half 14th century

Four anecdotes from the life of Wang Xizhi
Zhao Mengfu · 1310s

Poems on painting plum blossoms and bamboo
Zhao Mengjian · dated 1260

Illustration of Su Shi’s “Second Rhapsody on Red Cliff”
Unidentified artist · late 14th–early 15th century

Landscape of Qin Palaces
Unidentified artist

River Village in Autumn Dawn
Zhao Lingrang · 13th century

Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru
Huang Tingjian · ca. 1095
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. 88 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 06:55 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.