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 “Bedspread with birds and floral scrolls” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 02:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bedspread with birds and floral scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Bedspread
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Bedcover
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1749

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Bedspread
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Standing Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 1847

Birds and Flowers of Summer and Autumn
Shikibu Terutada · mid-16th century

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Birds and Flowers
Kano Motonobu · mid-16th century

Tablecover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Bedspread
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Marble pilaster with acanthus scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Obelisk
Petrus van Marum · ca. 1700–30

Portrait of Shun'oku Myōha
Unidentified artist · ca. 1383

Design for a Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

Miniature Jar with Cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Design for a Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

Beaker with birds and animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th century BCE

Coffeepot with "Hausmaler" Decor
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1725–1735
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. 1217 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2075755 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-08 02:28 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.