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 “Circular textile with two phoenixes” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 05:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Circular textile with two phoenixes
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Textile Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540

La liberte Americain
Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · 1783–89

Textile Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · second half 13th–14th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1810

Tupu (pin)
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Design for Woven Corner with Neoclassical Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

The Journey of the Magi
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–1825

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Collar
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Rank badge with two phoenixes
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Collar
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Textile with dragons and phoenixes
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–14th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Panel with Phoenixes and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Louis XVI restaurateur de la liberte
Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · 1789

Portions of a Cuirass
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–17th century

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Textile panel with phoenixes and lotuses holding the Eight Buddhist Treasures
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Bookmark
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900
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. 298 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 286663 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-10 05:25 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.