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 “Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246
Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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

Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

Dragon Roundel from a Ceremonial Garment
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Roundel
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

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

Woman’s ceremonial robe
Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Console Table and Wall Bracket Designs
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · ca. 1716

Dragon jar
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Vase Design
Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · early 18th century

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Study for Roundel with Putto
Pierre-Victor Galland, Swiss, active France, 1822 - 1892 · late 19th century

The Coronation of the Virgin, and Saints
Giovanni di Tano Fei · 1394

Title Page
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1738

Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

Teapot, from a Breakfast Service (Théière; Déjeuner Mosaïque Florentine)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1813

Richly Decorated Tunic
Artist not stated in the record · 660–870 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

Baptism of St. Martin
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
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. 281 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. 1999064 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-03 05:52 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.