OpenTwo 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 “Bird Painter” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Bird Painter · ca. 420 BCE
Birds, flowers of the seasons, and civet cats
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Lekythos
Bird Painter · ca. 430 BCE
Aythya affinis
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Nov 1919
Bird
Ju Chao
The Dispatch of the Messenger
François Boucher · 1765
Anas platyrhynchos
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jun 1978
"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Habiballah of Sava · ca. 1600
Vessel with mythological scene
Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE
A Bird's-Eye View
Theodore Robinson · 1889
Holy Family with Saint Anne
French Painter · early 17th century
Anser albifrons
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1916
Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Andokides Painter · ca. 530 BCE
The Dog of Goltzius
Artist not stated in the record · 1597
Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Arkesilas Painter · ca. 550 BCE
Miss Satterlee
Charles Bird King, born Newport, RI 1785-died Washington, DC 1862 · ca. 1830-1839
Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Poseidon Painter · ca. 510–500 BCE
Birds and flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Icarus Painter · 2nd quarter of the 5th century BCE
Birds and flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
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. 671 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. 589240 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 2026-08-27 03:07 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.