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 Chimneypiece” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Chimneypiece (cheminée)
Jean Le Pautre · ca. 1665–70

Design for a Chimneypiece
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · ca. 1800

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Design for a Chimneypiece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Chimneypiece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Design for a Chimneypiece
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819 · 1800

Chimneypiece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Design for a Chimneypiece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Design for a Chimneypiece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71

Design for a Chimneypiece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

Design for a Chimneypiece
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

Design for a Chimneypiece
John Yenn · late 18th–early 19th century

Design for a Chimneypiece with Overmantel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Design for a Chimneypiece
John Yenn · late 18th–early 19th century

Design for a Chimneypiece
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Design for a Chimneypiece
Sir William Chambers · 1740–1800

Design for a Chimneypiece
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Design for a Chimneypiece
Sir William Chambers · 1740–1800

Design for a Chimneypiece
Unknown · late 16th century

Design for a Chimneypiece
Sir William Chambers · 1740–1800

Design for a Chimneypiece, Wall with Chinoiserie Landscape, possibly for Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802
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. 22299 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2091780 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 06:20 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.