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. 11 shown for “Phasianus colchicus torquatus” — 40 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 16:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Phasianus colchicus torquatus
Artist not stated in the record

Phasianus colchicus torquatus
Artist not stated in the record

Phasianus colchicus torquatus
Artist not stated in the record · 1904

Phasianus colchicus torquatus
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Dec 1938

Phasianus colchicus torquatus
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1958

Phasianus colchicus torquatus
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1940

Phasianus colchicus torquatus
Artist not stated in the record · 1952

Phasianus colchicus torquatus
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1929

Phasianus colchicus torquatus
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Nov 1920

Phasianus colchicus x (Phasianus colchicus x Syrmaticus reevesi)
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1973

Syrmaticus soemmerringi x Phasianus colchicus
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1883
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1172 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-10 16:14 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.