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 “Wang Yuan” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:56 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.

Portrait of Zhao Zhiqian
Wang Yuan · dated 1871

Wang Xizhi watching geese
Qian Xuan · ca. 1295

Rabbit
Unidentified artist

The Hundred Flowers
Wang Yuan

Album of Copies of Chinese Paintings
Kano Tsunenobu · 17th century

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

Scholar viewing a waterfall
Ma Yuan · early 13th century

Inn and Travelers in Snowy Mountains
Yuan Yao · 1745

Ten Sites Associated with Ruan Yuan
Wang Jun · dated 1883

Red Cliffs and Green Valleys
Wang Meng · ca. 1367

Fragrant Snow at Broken Bridge
Wang Mian · 14th century

Simple Retreat
Wang Meng · ca. 1370
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. 210 matched · 24 examined · 1 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 2026-08-29 00:56 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.