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 “Vase with dragon amid floral scrolls” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 16:06 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.

Vase with dragon amid floral scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Vase with Dragon amid Clouds
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Vase with dragon amid clouds
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Meiping vase with dragons amid waves
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century
Maebyeong
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Dragon Amid Clouds and Waves
Unidentified artist · 15th–16th century

Jar with Dragons and Floral Designs
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Dish with Floral Designs
Artist not stated in the record · 1670s
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. 129 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 2026-08-30 16:06 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.