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 “Textile with Stripes and Confronted Birds” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 17:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Textile with Stripes and Confronted Birds
Artist not stated in the record

Cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Confronted Animal Rug
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Temple Pendant with Two Sirens Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Confronted Birds (back)
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Towel fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Miniature tabard
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

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

Bird-shaped vessel
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Textile with Birds and Horned Quadrupeds Flanking a Tree of Life
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

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

Feathered Tunic
Chimú artist(s) · 1400 - 1700 CE

Strawberry Thief
Morris & Co., London, England · designed 1883, printed ca. 1934

Tunic
Wari artist · 650–1000 CE

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

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 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. 1140 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. 2078531 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-07 17:21 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.