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 “Zhai Jichang” — 13 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dreaming of Flowers
Zhai Jichang · 1807

Brassaiopsis stellata K.M. Feng
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Sep 2008

Trachelospermum sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 2006

Photinia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 2006

Clematis sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Sep 2008

Smilax scobinicaulis C.H. Wright
Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 2006

Piper sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 2006

Aporosa octandra (Buch.-Ham. & D. Don) Vickery
Artist not stated in the record

The Rock Bridge at Mount Tiantai 天台石橋圖
Zhou Jichang 周季常 (active late 12th century) · 1178

Two fighting water buffaloes
Artist not stated in the record · 13th-14th century

Garment hook (daigou) with dragon interlace
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Lidded incense burner (xianglu) with geometric decoration and narrative scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 12 matched · 12 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 00:49 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.