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 “Vase with birds and flowers” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 06:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Chinese figure with bird
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1727, mounts and flowers ca. 1750

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1785–95

Vase
Greenwood Pottery Company · ca. 1884–93

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Ceiling Design
Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679 · ca.1660–1713

Vase
John Bennett · 1882

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Wall light (one of a pair)
Vincennes Manufactory · birds 1662–1722, flowers and mounts ca. 1750

Vase Design
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1743

Vase
Daniel Marot the Elder · ca. 1690

Title Page
L. Janneret, French, active late 18th century · 1788

Vase with birds and flowers
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

Vase with birds and flowers
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Arabesque Design
François Voisin, French, active 18th century · 1788

Vase with birds and flowers
Artist not stated in the record

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1832

Vase with birds and flowers
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Two Panel Designs
Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734-49

Vase with birds and flowers
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1850

Vase with birds and flowers
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Three Designs for Daybed Frames
André-Jacob Roubo, French, 1739–1791 · 1849–66
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. 3079 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. 2080499 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-08 06:43 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.