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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 “Cartouche with Sea Motifs, Plate B” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 02:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Cartouche with Sea Motifs, Plate B
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Cartouche with Sea Motifs, Plate B
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Ornament Panel with a Double Cartouche Showing Venus or Thetis with Her Nymphs and a Fountain
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1743-1763

Writing table (table à écrire)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1755

Ornament Panel with a Double Cartouche Showing a River God, a Nymph, and a Fountain
Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 1743-1763

Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca. 1745–50

CINQUIEME LIVRE D'ORNAMENS Inventés Par J.A. Meissonnier et Gravé par Huquier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740

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

NOUVEAUX CARTOUCHES CHINOIS
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

Table
Pierre Gole · ca. 1660

Cartouche with Sea Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1739–1796

Candlestand (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

Cartouche Design
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

Plate
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1525

Ceiling Designs
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · ca. 1730

Writing table
Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix · ca. 1760–70

Corsica
Wood & Challinor · mid-19th century

Commode
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1740–45

Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Plate
Samuel Troxel · 1846

Cartouche Designs
Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, French, 1726 – 1782 · 1759
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. 505 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. 1121673 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-07 02:54 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.