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. 22 shown for “Unidentified (Chinese)” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Emperor Xuanzong's flight to Shu
Unidentified artist · mid-12th century
Fan
Unidentified (Chinese) · 1850-1900
Ewer from Burghley House, Lincolnshire
Artist not stated in the record · Chinese porcelain 1573– ca. 1585, British mounts ca. 1585
Box with Three Stones
Unidentified (Chinese)
Dragons chasing flaming pearls
Unidentified · 14th century
Fan
Unidentified (Chinese)
Basin with turtles and fish
Unidentified · 14th century
Fan
Unidentified (Chinese) · 1850-1860
Brahma with Attendants and Musicians
Unidentified artist · late 16th century
Fan
Unidentified (Chinese) · 1850-1900
Shakyamuni triad
Unidentified artist · 1565
Fan
Unidentified (Chinese) · 1820-1850
Wild geese descending to sandbar
Unidentified artist · late 15th–early 16th century
Bowl
Unidentified (Chinese) · 1700-1800
Portrait of the Great Master Seosan
Unidentified artist · late 17th–18th century
Bowl
Unidentified (Chinese) · 1600-1800
Folding Fan with Fishing Net Decoration
Unidentified artist · late 16th–early 17th century
Bowl
Unidentified (Chinese) · 1700-1800
Grapevine and Squirrels
Unidentified artist · early 19th century
Fan
Unidentified (Chinese) · 1850-1900
Fan
Unidentified (Chinese) · 1800-1850
Fan
Unidentified (Chinese) · 1850-1900
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. 921 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 33099 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-01 22:11 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.