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 “Chimaera Painter” — 40 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 10:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Ornithoptera chimaera
Artist not stated in the record · [Not Stated]
Ornithoptera chimaera
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Oct 1979

Uratelornis chimaera
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1924

Project for a candelabrum
Artist not stated in the record · 1791

Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

Ornithoptera chimaera
Artist not stated in the record

Design for a Bowl
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · early 19th century

Design for a Bowl
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · early 19th century

Design for a Console Table
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1823

A Winged Mer Hermaphrodite and Sketches for a Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Six Designs for a Child's Bed
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 12902 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-30 10:50 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.