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. 11 shown for “Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons
Kano Sanboku · late 17th century

Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons
Kano Mitsunobu 狩野光信 · late 16th century

Chinese figure with bird
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1727, mounts and flowers ca. 1750

Wall light (one of a pair)
Vincennes Manufactory · birds 1662–1722, flowers and mounts ca. 1750

Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 260–270 CE

Vase with flowers and birds of the four seasons
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Seasons and Elements (Air) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683
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. 4620 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 02:54 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.