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 “Relief with a bird” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 22:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Relief with a bird
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Tusk
Kongo artist · 1861

Relief with a Bird
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century

Brisé fan
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Bird Head
Artist not stated in the record · Date unknown

Ornament, Christmas tree
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–99

Bird pendant
Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

Dish with the Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Designs for Three Pedestals
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770–80

Relief with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Pair of Plates
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1758

Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675–1700

Relief
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century (?)

Rocaille Fountain Design
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · after 1736

Relief with enthroned ruler
Chakalte' · 770 CE

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Eagle relief
Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Funerary relief
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Byzantine Scroll—Bonn
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1879

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Band
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th 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. 12012 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. 2288798 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-30 22:51 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.