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. 12 shown for “Inlay, rekhyt bird” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Inlay, rekhyt bird
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Inlay fragment, rekhyt birds
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Tile in the form of a rekhyt bird surmounting a neb sign
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Wall Tile with Rekhyt Birds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE

Plaque, black ibis hieroglyph
Artist not stated in the record · 100 BCE–100 CE

Stirrup-spout bottle with bird warrior
Moche artist(s) · 500–800 CE

Locket Pendant, Possibly a Pomander, in Shape of Shell with Animal-Headed Cap Flanked by a Small Bird on Sides
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Lidded Vessel
Yoruba artist · 17th–18th century
Case (Inrō) with Design of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune Fording a River
Nakayama Komin · late 19th century

Case (Inrō) with Design of Clamshells and Fireflies
Koma Yasutada · late 18th century

Quail chick inlay
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE
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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 03:39 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.