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 Dragons” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 17:25 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 Dragons
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

Sword Guard in the Form of Confronted Dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–early 15th century

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Tapestry with Dragons and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Clothing box decorated with dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Orphrey
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th or early 17th century

Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Coffeepot
Meissen Manufactory · manufactured ca. 1715–20; decorated ca. 1728–30

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

Textile with Stripes and Confronted Birds
Artist not stated in the record

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

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

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Textile with Birds and Horned Quadrupeds Flanking a Tree of Life
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

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

Textile Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Velvet with Figural Imagery
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th 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. 505 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. 1573943 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 17:25 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.