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 a Case with Alternative Suggestions” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1767–71

Design for a Case with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1790

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

Watch case
George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Project for a Window Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Watch
Simon Hackett · ca. 1632–40

Organ Case with Arms of P
Artist not stated in the record · 1655–67

Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories
Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1800

Window Cases with Alternate Suggestions
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–70

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Two Designs for Altar Frames with Alternative Suggestions
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · early 19th century

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

Wallpaper Design
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Obelisk clock with a Franklin movement
David Roentgen · ca. 1785–90

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternate Suggestions
Unknown, Austrian · 1835–50

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Design for a Wallpaper with Alternative Pattern
Unknown, Austrian · 1840–60

Clock with pedestal
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1690

Design for a Painted Ceiling with Alternative Suggestions, Possibly for the Entrance Hall
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1801 or earlier
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. 4645 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. 2181228 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 2026-08-28 05:46 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.