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 “Coffer with inlaid monogram” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:46 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.

Coffer with inlaid monogram
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680–1700

Smith & Wesson Model 1 ½ Second Issue Revolver (serial no. 30451) with Case
Smith & Wesson · 1869

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

Horse Bit
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Finger Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Smith and Wesson .44 Double-Action Revolver for George Jay Gould (1864–1923), serial no. 23402, with Case and Cleaning Brush
Smith & Wesson · 1888–89

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Design for a coffered ceiling with alternative decorative patterns
Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise · 1840–97

Design for a coffered ceiling with painted panels
Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise · 1840–97

Design for a coffered ceiling decorated with rinceaux
Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise · 1840–97

Design for a coffered ceiling with painted initials: SRI (?)
Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise · 1840–97
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. 86 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:46 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.