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 the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of side chairs
Thomas How · ca. 1724–36

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Casket with scenes from the Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Design no. 15 for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

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

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Two panels from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series
Jean Démosthène Dugourc · ca. 1799

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800
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. 2248 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3978281 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 2026-09-02 12:45 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.