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 “Eagle Painter” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta hydria (water jar)
Eagle Painter · ca. 520–510 BCE

Street Lamppost Letterbox
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1880

Eagle relief
Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Eagle No. 3 Company Cape
unknown · 1850-1900

Eagle relief
Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Robbing the Eagle's Nest
Robert S. Duncanson, American, 1821 - 1872 · 1856

Bowl with Eagle
Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Penstemon watsonii A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1938

Terracotta pyxis (box)
Hermitage Painter · ca. 590–570 BCE

Castilleja septentrionalis Lindl.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1938

Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Micali Painter · ca. 525–500 BCE

Studies of Two Eagle Heads and One Wing, from Cardinal Bernis' Eagle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)
Pan Painter · ca. 470 BCE

Decorative Motifs
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1810

Dish with The Woman of Sestos and the Eagle and arms of the Pucci family
Fra Xanto Avelli da Rovigo · 1532
Muhlenbergia richardsonis (Trin.) Rydb.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1898

Liberty
Chinese Painter · ca. 1800

Lever pouch padlock
Eagle Lock Company · 1891

Fragmentary neck-amphora (jar)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 675 BCE

Salix exigua Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1896

The Last Supper
Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Cryptantha sericea (A. Gray) Payson
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1968

Portrait of a Man
French Painter

Alopecurus aequalis Sobol.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1898
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. 147 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. 30208 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-01 07:24 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.