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 bats, butterflies, peonies, and peaches” — 54 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 21:00 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 bats, butterflies, peonies, and peaches
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase
Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

Woman's robe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Peonies, Plum Blossoms, and Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Fans and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th–first half 19th century

Immortal Magu with deer and peach tree
Artist not stated in the record · 1575-1725

Textile fragment with peonies and butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Man's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

Chair Strip with Flowers and Decorative Rocks
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Tapestry: a peony and butterfly
Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

Textile fragment with peaches, plums, birds, bats and deer
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Panel with Peonies and Butterfly
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–15th century

Continuous garlands of freesias, peonies, phlox, and morning glories
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
Rank Badge with Egret
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Tureen and Stand
Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · ca. 1775

One of a Pair of Chair Strips with Auspicious Patterns
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95

Embroidered Panel with Daoist Magician
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Design for a Jug
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910
Woman's Ceremonial Robe
Artist not stated in the record · 18th or early 19th century

Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835
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. 14 matched · 14 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. 1526642 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 21:00 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.