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 Dados” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Spoon holder
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1878–81

Design for Dados
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

Bookstand
Charles-Auguste Questel · 1839

Design for the Mantlepiece and Dado for a Room in the Villa Digne
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

Plate with figures in arbor
Cornelis Pronk · ca. 1740

Design for a Gilt Bronze Ornament
Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652 – 1725 · 1680–1700

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Wall facing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Wall facing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Side table (one of a pair)
Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Wall facing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

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

Wall facing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Wall facing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

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

Wall facing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Plate depicting a lady with parasol
Cornelis Pronk · ca. 1734–37

Wall facing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Wall facing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Wall facing
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725
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. 26321 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 492570 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 2026-09-01 11:23 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.