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 “Two Birds on a Branch of Tulips with Insects” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 11:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bird pendant
Central Region artist(s) · 300–700 CE

Two Birds on a Branch of Tulips with Insects
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

Sofa
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1810–20

Two Brown Birds on Branch with Tulip, Berries, and Insects
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Brown Bird on Branch with Rose, Tulip, and Insects
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Salesman's sample
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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

Bird with Tulip, Carnation, Butterflies, and Insect
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Still Life with Poppy, Insects, and Reptiles
Otto Marseus van Schrieck · ca. 1670

Gray Bird on Branch with Tulip, Snapdragons, and Forget-Me-Nots with Butterfly
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

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

Two Brown-and-Yellow Birds on Branches with Carnations and Insects
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

Two-handled Bowl
Cornelius Kierstede · 1700–1710

Design for Embroidery, Gentleman's Waistcoat Pocket
Mademoiselle Calva, French, active late 18th century · ca. 1785

The Dispatch of the Messenger
François Boucher · 1765

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Habiballah of Sava · ca. 1600

Plate Design with Pair of Exotic Birds on a Blossoming Branch
Amédée de Caranza, active Longwy and Bordeaux, ca. 1867 – 1885 · 1875–85

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1777

Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Birds
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi · ca. 1615–18

Textile
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. 2518 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. 4539990 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 2026-09-05 11:49 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.