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. 23 shown for “Batteur d'or, Plate I” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Batteur d'or, Plate I
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Batteur d'or, Plate II
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Girandolle à branche de porcelaine garnie d'or (Girandolle with Porcelain Branches Covered in Gold), plate 70, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1695–1750

Commode
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · ca. 1783
![Garde d'Epées d'or pour les presens du Marriage du Roy en 1725., troisième planche [Sword Handle in honor of the King's Marriage in 1725, third plate], pl. 51 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-26804_02-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Garde d'Epées d'or pour les presens du Marriage du Roy en 1725., troisième planche [Sword Handle in honor of the King's Marriage in 1725, third plate], pl. 51 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Jewish Woman of Algiers
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Cyanotis arachnoidea C.B. Clarke
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 2002

Cabinet
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1700

Portrait of Maximilian I (1459-1519)
Artist not stated in the record · 1700-1725

Vase (vase gothique Fragonard) (one of a pair)
Alexandre Evariste Fragonard · manufactured 1832, decorated 1844

Blechnum occidentale L.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 2008

Traveling table (table de voyage or table pliante)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1720

Lindsaea lancea var. leprieurii (Hook.) K.U. Kramer
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 2008

Medici vase with a scene of the château at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1811

Erinaceus europaeus
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1919

Monumental vase
Pierre Philippe Thomire · lapidary work: early 19th century; pedestal and mounts: 1819

Silaus virescens (Spreng.) Boiss.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1896

Medici vase with a scene of the park at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1811

Androsace maxima L.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1896 to 22 May 1896
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. 596 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. 265929 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 22:00 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.