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. 12 shown for “Bronze spout in the form of a lion's head” — 24 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé)
Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt · ca. 1685

Mechanical table
Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Bronze spout in the form of a lion's head
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Oval table
David Roentgen · ca. 1774–80

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London
I N · 1675/76

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Commode
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)
Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45
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. 6847 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:01 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.