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 “Tapestry with Dragons and Flowers” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 15:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tapestry with Dragons and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

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

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Robe for a statue
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Settee (one of a pair)
John Mayhew · 1769–71

Panel with five dragons, flaming pearls, clouds, and floral patterns
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Design for Tapestry
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1720-1750

Dish with Two Intertwined Dragons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Fragment of a Tapestry or Wall Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1420–30

Tiraz tapestry fragments
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Tapestry lining for tester (ciel for lit à la duchesse en impériale)
Beauvais · ca. 1780–90

Kang or furniture cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Armchair (one of a set of six)
John Mayhew · 1769–71

Foot stool
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1685–95

Armchair (one of a set of six)
John Mayhew · 1769–71

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 300–500
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. 903 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. 1572264 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-27 15:38 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.