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 “Dish with Dragon and Phoenix” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dish with Dragon and Phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century
![Sweetmeat Dish, by Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-185548_02.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Sweetmeat Dish
Grieksche A [de] (the Greek A Factory), Delft, Netherlands, founded 1658 · 1686–1701

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50

Panel with dragons, pearls, phoenixes, and floral patterns
Artist not stated in the record · 1573-1620

Tile with Image of Phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Vase with dragon and phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Heraldic Achievement Designs
Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · late 17th–early 18th century

Dish with dragon
Artist not stated in the record · 1680–1700

Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Dish with dragon
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

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

Dish with dragon
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century
![Inscription [above left]; Woman of the Apocalyse [above right]; Coronation of the Virgin [below left]; Frontispiece [below right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-10710_3.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Inscription [above left]; Woman of the Apocalyse [above right]; Coronation of the Virgin [below left]; Frontispiece [below right]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

Dish with Two Intertwined Dragons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Cup with dragon handles
Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

'Saz'-Style Drawing of a Dragon Amid Foliage
Shah Quli · ca. 1540–50

Perithemis intensa
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1946

Dish with Phoenixes and Dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Perithemis intensa
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1946

Dish with dragons and phoenixes
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Orthemis ferruginea
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Dec 1955

Dish with dragon amid waves
Artist not stated in the record

Perithemis intensa
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1946
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. 120 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. 1574704 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 2026-08-28 18:55 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.