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. 20 shown for “Ye Xin” — 49 records examined, 10 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.
Landscapes
Ye Xin · dated 1652
Allium prattii C.H. Wright
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 2009

Landscape
Ye Xin · datable to 1645–55
Grewia biloba G. Don
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1984

White Crane Mountain, leaf from Album for Zhou Lianggong
Ye Xin · datable to 1654–55
Anzia hypomelaena (Nyl.) Xin Y. Wang et al.
Artist not stated in the record

Reminiscence of Jinling
Wang Gai · 1686
Eurya muricata Dunn
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1984

Summer Mountains
Qu Ding · ca. 1050
Ternstroemia gymnanthera (Wight & Arn.) Sprague
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1984

Bulb bowl, Numbered Jun ware
Chinese · 13th–14th century
Eurya loquaiana Dunn
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1984

One hundred water buffalo
Unidentified artist · 13th century
Camellia acutissima Hung T. Chang
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1984

Riverbank
Dong Yuan
Adinandra bockiana var. acutifolia (Hand.-Mazz.) Kobuski
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1984
Eurya muricata Dunn
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1984
Eurya loquaiana Dunn
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1984
Phyllanthus glaucus Wall. ex Müll. Arg.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1995

Hedyotis mellii Tutcher
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1995
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 71524 matched · 40 examined · 9 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.