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. 9 shown for “Zhu Duan” — 43 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 01:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Peacock with Pine and Camellia
Zhu Duan · dated 1518

William Duane
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1802

Landscape
Li Xiuyi · dated 1843

William John Duane
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

Elatostema sinense var. xinningense (W.T. Wang) Duan & Q. Lin
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct 2002

Col. Wm. Duane
Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin, born Dijon, France 1770-died Dijon, France 1852 · n.d.

Doc (Dr. Duane)
Olin Levi Warner, born Suffield, CT 1844-died New York City 1896 · 1877

Dracontium amazonense G.H. Zhu & Croat
Artist not stated in the record

Dracontium amazonense G.H. Zhu & Croat
Artist not stated in the record
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1433 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 01:33 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.