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 “Mirror with Birds” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 13:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mirror
Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat) · ca. 1685–1700

Mirror with Frame of Birds, Snakes, and Foliage
Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 19th century

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Hand Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · Second half 19th century

Mirror with Birds
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–7th century

Chimneypiece Design with Side Paneling
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1727

Mirror with birds and beasts amid grape vines
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Chimneypiece Design
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788
Mirror Back with Birds and Animals in Repoussé
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Chimneypiece Design
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Mirror
Thomas Pelletier · ca. 1690

Interior Wall Elevation with a Sofa
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779–84

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680–1700

Design for the Decoration Above a Mirror, Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789–1793

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Design for a Mirror with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Elevation of an Apartment Interior
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design
Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719 · 1715–19

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · mid- 18th–late 18th 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. 9001 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. 818375 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-08 13:46 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.