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. 24 shown for “Wang Yuanqi” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fishing in River Country at Blossom Time
Wang Yuanqi · dated 1709

Primulina linearifolia (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1891

Wangchuan Villa
Wang Yuanqi · dated 1711

Primulina pinnata (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1989
Landscape in the Styles of Huang Gongwang and Gao Kegong
Wang Yuanqi · dated 1705

Primulina subrhomboidea (W.T. Wang) Y.Z. Wang
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 2001

Landscape after Wu Zhen
Wang Yuanqi · dated 1695

Primulina longgangensis (W.T. Wang) Yan Liu & Y.Z. Wang
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1996

Landscape for Zhanting
Wang Yuanqi · dated 1710

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

Landscape in the Style of Ni Zan
Unidentified artist · 18th century or later, spurious date of 1715
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1970

Landscape
Wang Xuehao · 1824
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Nov 1977

Presenting the Tripod
Wang Xuehao · 1803
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jan 1978

Rear View of the Mountain Villa for Watching Clouds
Yu Zouyan · 1844–45
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1978

Landscape
Wang Chen · dated 1788
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Mar 1976

Landscape in the style of Huang Gongwang
Wang Shimin · 1666
Grateloupia chiangii S. Kawaguchi & H.W. Wang in H.W. Wang et al.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1976

Landscapes after old masters
Wang Hui · dated 1674 and 1677

Lysionotus longipedunculatus (W.T. Wang) W.T. Wang
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1985 to 10 Oct 1985
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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 5757 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 20:20 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.