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 “Yellow-and-Blue Bird on Bouquet with Rose, Tulips, and Daffodils, with Butterflies” — 58 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Bouquet of Flowers
Clara Peeters · ca. 1612

Yellow-and-Blue Bird on Bouquet with Rose, Tulips, and Daffodils, with Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

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

Blue Bird on Bouquet of Roses and Tulips, with Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

A Vase of Flowers
Margareta Haverman · 1716

Pair of Brown Birds on Bouquet with Tulip, Rose, and Snapdragons, with Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

Dish with Floral Designs
Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Grey and Coral Bird on Bouquet with Rose, Tulip, Daisies, and Forget-Me-Nots, with Butterfly
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

Bottle with Flying Cranes
Artist not stated in the record · 1650s

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

The Emperor's Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Black-and-White Mottled Bird on Tulip Stem, with Daffodils and Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

Chair seat cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

Curtain paper
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–60

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Manohar · recto: ca. 1615–20; verso: ca. 1530–50

Dish
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th–early 19th century

A Vase with Flowers
Jacob Vosmaer · probably 1613

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Small covered wine pot or teapot
Chinese · 1662–1722

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–60

"Diving Dipper and Other Birds", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Mansur · recto: ca. 1610–15; verso: ca. 1535–45

Design for a Painted Porcelain Sugar Bowl and Stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

"Portrait of Rup Singh", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Govardhan · verso: ca. 1615–20; recto: ca. 1500

Bedcover
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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 2 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. 56 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-02 00:27 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.