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 “Cartouche with War Motifs” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 02:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Cartouche with War Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–mid- 18th century

Bowl with Character for “Longevity” and Assorted Treasure Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

FLAMBEAUX
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill
Pieter Claesz · 1628

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

The Flims Room
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1682–84

Cartouche with Chinoiserie Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Saber
Artist not stated in the record · blade, 18th–19th century; guard and decoration on blade, 19th century; grip, 18th century

Cartouche with Chinoiserie Motifs
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · ca. 1740

Jewelry Elements
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–16th century

Cartouche with Chinoiserie Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Cassone
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 16th century (rebuilt, with replacements)

Cartouche with Chinoiserie Motifs
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · ca. 1740

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

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

Jug with coat-of-arms of the Cleminius Family
Abraham Helmhack · ca. 1700

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

Doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Cartouche with Chinoiserie Motifs
Thomas Vivarés, British, 1735 - 1810 · ca. 1750

Tea chest
Abraham Roentgen · ca. 1750–55

Title Page
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

Qur'an Bookbinding Inset with Turquoise
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Cartouche Design
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75
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. 418 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 268186 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 02:50 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.