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. 21 shown for “Peacock” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Peacock
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Peacock
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Peacock
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Skewer with Cornucopia and Peacock Terminal
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Peacock
Meissen Manufactory · 1741

The Peacock
Artist not stated in the record · 1896

Peacock
Meissen Manufactory · 1741

Peacock in a Garden
Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · 1875–80

Dish with Peacock Design
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Sketchbook Page: Peacock Feathers
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

Juno and the peacock
Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · late 16th century

Woman and Peacock
Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · ca. 1900

Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Peacocks and Amorini
Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915 · 1878

Peacock (one of a pair)
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755–58

Peacock Coal
Artist not stated in the record

Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii
Artist not stated in the record

Bottle Depicting a Peacock in Foliage
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Peacock
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Bandbox
Artist not stated in the record · 1835

Work box in the form of a peacock
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
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. 797 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1680 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 21:05 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.