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 and lions amid flowers” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 13:40 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 with birds and lions amid flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Designs for a Console Looking Glass
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

Mirror
Johannes Hannart (or Jan Hanat) · ca. 1685–1700

Design for a Display Stand
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German, 1781–1841 · 1812

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Interior Wall Elevation with a Sofa
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779–84
Mirror with lions and flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Chimneypiece Design
N. Bruchon, French, active 18th century · 1775–87

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 with handle and decorated with peacock, flowers, and birds
Artist not stated in the record

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

Mirror Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Chimneypiece Design with Side Paneling
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1727
Mirror Back with Birds and Animals in Repoussé
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

Mirror with parrots and flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Design for a Looking Glass and Console Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–30

Mirror decorated with figures in a landscape
Artist not stated in the record

Interior Wall Elevation
L. Janneret, French, active late 18th century · 1788

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

Towel
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Varengeville
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1736–52, with later additions

Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 193 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. 2080334 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 13:40 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.