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 game board design and animals of the four directions” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:30 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 game board design and animals of the four directions
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Nouveau Jeu des Fables d'Esope (New game of Aesop's Fables)
Jean, active 19th c. · ca. 1812

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Board game
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Game of Hounds and Jackals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1814–1805 B.C.

Die Thierwelt (The Animal Kingdom)
Henri Frederich Müller, German, active 19th c. · ca. 1835

Mirror with animals of the four directions and other mythical creatures
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

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

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

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

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Cavagnole
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Vüe de Même (Czartoryski) Sallon du Costé des Glacés (Design for the Salon Czartoryski), plate 85, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Die Thierwelt (The Animal Kinggom)
Henri Frederich Müller, German, active 19th c. · ca. 1835

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

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

Mirror decorated with lunisolar cosmology
Artist not stated in the record

Design for a wall of a ballroom
Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814 · 1770

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Wall with Mirror and Console Table
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80

Cheminée au milieu de Lambris de desseins differens
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · 1700-1742
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. 367 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. 4249897 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-27 12:30 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.