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 “Kesi tapestry of two birds and a flowering tree” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Kesi tapestry of two birds and a flowering tree
Artist not stated in the record · 16th-18th century

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

Table frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Tapestry with Dragons and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Design for a Tapestry or a Painted Wall Hanging
Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · 1725–50

Cosmological Mandala with Mount Meru
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Immortal Magu with deer and peach tree
Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

Settee (one of a pair)
John Mayhew · 1769–71

Female immortal with a basket
Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Diane
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Diane
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Tiraz tapestry fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Weft-woven tapestry (kesi): Three Star Gods and Joy Personified as Two Children
Artist not stated in the record · 18th-19th century

The Dispatch of the Messenger
François Boucher · 1765

Robe for a statue
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Temple Pendant with Two Sirens Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Confronted Birds (back)
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Dragonfly and lotus plants
Artist not stated in the record · 16th--early 17th 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. 1446 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. 4451546 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 13:29 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.