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 “Table valance with dragons and phoenix” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 08:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Table valance with dragons and phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Table frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Tile with Image of Phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Valance with chef
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–99

Dish with Dragon and Phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

A Room in Schloss Buchwald
Friedrich Wilhelm Klose, German, 1804 – after 1863 · 1840–45

Vase with dragon and phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 1783–89

Dish with Phoenixes and Dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Double vase with dragons and phoenixes
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Cabinet card studio portrait of a man standing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1896

Vase in Meiping Shape with Phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

The Red Room, Schloss Fischbach
Friedrich Wilhelm Klose, German, 1804 – after 1863 · ca. 1846

Chocolate cup and saucer with dragons and phoenixes
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1739

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

Table valance with phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

Aquamanile in the Form of a Crowned Centaur Fighting a Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1225

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 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. 160 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. 1576803 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 08:43 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.