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 II” — 64 records examined, 17 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.
Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

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

Clock with pedestal
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1690

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

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

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
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1740–45

Side table (commode en console)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1755–60

Portrait of Charles II of Spain (1661-1700)
Artist not stated in the record · 1665-1670

Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century CE
![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

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

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

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

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

Ramesseum, Thebes (201. Thèbes. 1844. 202 Rhamséion.)
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey · 1844

Androsace maxima L.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1896 to 22 May 1896

Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Dianthus superbus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1852

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Thlaspi montanum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Apr 1894 to 27 Apr 1894

Square-Headed Bow Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 500–600

Cyperus michelianus (L.) Delile
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1861
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. 434 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. 132402 matched · 40 examined · 15 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.