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 “Double Capital with Birds” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Double Capital with Birds
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

Double Capital with Masks and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1140–60

Rendering of Various Decorative details of Bologna; Verso: Architectural Details
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–14

Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Elévation d'un Cabinet Orné de Pilastre avec Armoires pouvant contenir des livres ou des Morceaux d'histoire Naturelle
Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

Double Capital
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Design for a Double Door and Overdoor
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

Double Whistle
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Decoration de Lambris d’une Chambre de parade du côté de la Cheminée
André Basset, French, active 1749 – 1787 · ca. 1765

Double Capital
Artist not stated in the record · Late 15th century

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

Composite Papyrus Capital
Artist not stated in the record · 380–343 BCE

Tusk
Kongo artist · 1861

Engaged Double Capital
Artist not stated in the record · Late 15th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Double bowl
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Dish with flowers and birds
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–70

Double ba-bird
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Double Capital with Vine Tendrils
Artist not stated in the record · 1170–80

Red velveteen jacket and pants with Fendi logo
Dapper Dan, American, born 1945 · ca. 1990
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. 619 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. 847000 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-02 17:24 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.