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. 24 shown for “Wang Gai” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Reminiscence of Jinling
Wang Gai · 1686
Plantago major L.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1928
Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Wang Gai
Primulina linearifolia (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1891
“Bamboo” section, from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Wang Gai · 1817 (Jiaqing 2nd edition)
Primulina pinnata (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1989
Landscape after Xia Gui (active ca. 1195–1230), from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Wang Gai · first edition printed in 1679
Primulina subrhomboidea (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 2001
Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Wang Gai · first edition, printed in 1679
Primulina longgangensis (W.T. Wang) Yan Liu & Y.Z. Wang
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1996
Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Wang Gai · first edition printed in 1679
Aconitum carmichaelii var. hwangshanicum (W.T. Wang & P.K. Hsiao) W.T. Wang & P.K. Hsiao
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1925
Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Wang Gai · first edition printed in 1679
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1970
Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Wang Gai · first edition printed in 1679
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Nov 1977
Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Wang Gai · first edition printed in 1679
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jan 1978
Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Wang Gai · first edition printed in 1679
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1978
Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Wang Gai · first edition printed in 1679
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Mar 1976
Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Wang Gai · first edition printed in 1679
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1976
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. 42 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. 10090 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-26 20:36 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.