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 felines” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:45 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 felines
Artist not stated in the record · 581-618

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Inscriptions from Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · December 17, 1883

Mirror
Thomas Pelletier · ca. 1690

Square from hanging
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

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

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

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

Wall Elevation with a Mirror
Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792 · mid- 18th century

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

Portrait Miniature Mirror with Pouch
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Wall Mirror Frame Designs
Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · ca. 1767

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

Designs for an Interior Wall Elevation
Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686–1740

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

Mirror with Flowers and Horn of Plenty
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

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

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–1525 BCE

Wall Elevation with Windows and a Mirror
Étienne Charpentier, French, 1707 – after 1792 · mid- 18th century

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Design for a carved mirror frame
Artist not stated in the record · 1750
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. 2850 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. 249426 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-06 13:45 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.