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 “Albert E. Roberts's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 04:07 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 Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865

Albert E. Roberts's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1870

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

Albert E. Robert's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model, missing back
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Albert E. Roberts's 1868 School Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1868

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

William A. Slaymaker's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1870

The Adoration of the Magi
Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

M. L. Holt and L. C. Abbott's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1870

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

George W. Puterbaugh and Alfred Teal's 1876 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1876

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Eldridge J. Smith's 1872 School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1872

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

A. J. Hull's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1870

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Henry R. Fry's 1875 School Seat Standard Support Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Saint Jerome as Scholar
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1610

Elijah Wilson's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1870

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Frank T. June's 1878 School Desk Connecting Improvement Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1878

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

Henry G. Sellman's 1871 Improved Frame for School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1871
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. 45 matched · 24 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. 2672675 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-01 04:07 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.