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 “Design for a Chimneypiece with Alternative Suggestions” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Design for a Chimneypiece, with Alternative Suggestions for the Overmantel Frame
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Design for a Chimneypiece with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1775

Project for a Chimneypiece with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

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

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

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

Chimneypiece Designs
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

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

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

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

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

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2175266 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 2026-09-03 15:09 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.