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 “Design for Architectural Moldings” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 15:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Table or bracket clock with calendar
Daniel Delander · probably ca. 1720

Design for Architectural Moldings
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

Cabinet
Melchior Baumgartner · ca. 1655–59, engraved decorations ca. 1825–50

Album of Molding Designs, Plans, and Sections for Interiors
Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · late 17th–mid- 18th century

Barberini Cabinet
Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23

Title Page
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

Table or bracket clock
Edward East · ca. 1665

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Sphinx Chair
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795, with some later additions

Studies of Architectural Moldings
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1879-80

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
Jean Le Pautre · ca. 1665–70

Design for Overmantel; recto, Plans of Moldings
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1720

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Three Friezes; A Base; An Ornament
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

Design for a Wall Decoration with the Sacrifice of Abraham and the Flight into Egypt
Giovanni Lanfranco · 1582–1647

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Architectural woodwork and paneling
George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Architectural Vessel
Artist not stated in the record · 400–600 CE

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Bookcase (one of a pair)
Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900
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. 6249 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. 503920 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 15:06 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.