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 “Pillow with a falcon attacking a swan” — 59 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pillow with a falcon attacking a swan
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Decor Chasse et Peche
Desfossé et Karth, French, 1863 · 1859–65

Belt slide with a falcon attacking a swan
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

The Fort Pillow Massacre
Kurz & Allison, American, founded 1880 · 1892

Panel with Hunting Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Pillow cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Terracotta aryballos (perfume vase)
Sydney Cluster · ca. 620–590 BCE

Pillow cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Toggle in the shape of a falcon attacking a swan
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Pillow cover
Sybil Carter Indian Mission and Lace Industry Association · ca. 1900

Tureen with cover
Edme-Pierre Balzac · 1757–59

Pillow cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Pillow cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Pillow sham
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Textile with Swan Hunt
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

L'OISEAU DE PROYE
Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1743

Shield with Hunting and Landscape Vignettes
Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Falco columbarius suckleyi
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1941

Chair (Sgabello)
Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Pillow cover
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Mantel clock with alarm
Franz Xavier Gegenreiner · case ca. 1710, movement ca. 1760–70

Pillow cover
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–early 17th 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. 19 matched · 19 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. 1875615 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-01 07:26 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.