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 Sofa with Alternative Suggestions” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sofa
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1810–20

Design for a Sofa with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Sofa (part of a set)
Filippo Pelagio Palagi · ca. 1835

Design for Sofa, with Alternative Suggestions
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780

Sofa (canapé à confidents)
Claude I Sené · ca. 1775–80

Drawing
Carlo Amati, Italian, 1776 – 1852 · ca. 1802

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

Designs for a Sofa, Chairs, and Vanity Table
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

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

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

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

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

Sake Ewer (Hisage) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in Alternating Fields
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

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

Sofa
Julius Dessoir · 1853

Design for a Painted Ceiling with Alternative Suggestions, Possibly for the Entrance Hall
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1801 or earlier

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884

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

The Sacrifice of Isaac
Reinhold Vasters · probably second half 19th century

Design for a Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternate Suggestions
Unknown, Austrian · 1835–50
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. 3191 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. 2175290 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 2026-09-04 07:55 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.