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 “Spotted Feline” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 13:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Spotted Feline
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE–4th century CE

Square from hanging
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century
Spotted Feline Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

Bottle with caiman
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1000–800 BCE

Inscriptions from Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · December 17, 1883

Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Campanula aparinoides Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1988

Feline figure
Condorhuasi artist(s) · 500 BCE–500 CE

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Bronze pointed neck-amphora with stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–450 BCE

Lycopus virginicus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1988

Stirrup-spout bottle with feline and snake
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Poa badensis
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1992

Double bowl
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Senna hayesiana (Britton & Rose) H.S. Irwin & Barneby
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Oct 1996

Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter of the 5th century BCE

Hieracium albiflorum Hook.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1988

Pendant
Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s) · 1300–1521 CE

Hieracium horridum Fr.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1988

Feline-shaped stirrup-spout bottle
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Campanula rotundifolia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1988

Feline-shaped spout-and-bridge bottle
Paracas artist(s) · 800–400 BCE

Erigeron breweri A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1988
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. 38 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. 3176 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-09 13:49 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.