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 “Yuan Jiang” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Palace of Nine Perfections
Yuan Jiang · 1691

Picnic on the Riverbank
Probably by Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743) · 18th century

Viewing a waterfall from a mountain pavilion
Li Yin · 1700

Indet. sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 2010

One hundred water buffalo
Unidentified artist · 13th century

Prunus spinulosa Siebold & Zucc.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 2010

Narcissus
Zhao Mengjian · mid-13th century

Dendropanax dentigerus (Harms) Merr.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 2010

Ten Sites Associated with Ruan Yuan
Wang Jun · dated 1883

Osmanthus reticulatus P.S. Green
Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 2010

Landscapes after Song and Yuan masters
Lan Ying · 1642

Winter landscape
Attributed to Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743) · 18th century

Landscape in the Style of Guo Xi
Tan Song · dated 1748

Boats moored on the nighttime river
Style of Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743) · 18th century

Ritual water vessel (lei)
Artist not stated in the record · 1359

Houses on the river
School of Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743) · 18th century

Landscapes in the manner of Song and Yuan masters
Yun Shouping · 1667

Clear and chilly morning
Yuan Jiang (ca. 1694-1743) · 1722

Wang Xizhi watching geese
Qian Xuan · ca. 1295
Hypogymnia pruinosa Wei & Jiang
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Dec 1964

Bamboo and rock
Deng Yu · ca. 1360–67
Elsholtzia densa Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 2009

Grooms and horses
Zhao Mengfu · dated 1296 and 1359

Indet. sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 2012
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. 28 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. 6470 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-28 19:48 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.