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 “Cover with Unicorns” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 03:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cover with Unicorns
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Sugar Bowl and Cover
James Goodwin, British, active London (entered 1706) · 1726–1727

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Towel fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505
![Melchizedek Brings Bread and Wine to Abraham [above]; Unicorn Hunt [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-7872_03-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Melchizedek Brings Bread and Wine to Abraham [above]; Unicorn Hunt [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1584–1605

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Banner
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Towel fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces
Lambertus Vrythoff · case ca. 1645, movement ca. 1750

Figure of America
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Potpourri bowl with cover
Artist not stated in the record · stoneware 18th century, mounts 1745–49

Button
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca. 1745–50

The Lion Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

The Unicorn Crosses a Stream (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Button
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pledge glass with cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Lion Hunt
Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1678 – after 1738 · 1730–50

Teapot with cover
Meissen Manufactory · manufactured ca. 1720–25, decorated ca. 1730

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1820
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. 12675 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 263082 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-04 03:22 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.