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 “Egyptian Revival Table Cover” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Egyptian Revival Table Cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–80
![The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fes%2Fweb-large%2FDP-42913-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Farnese Table
Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–75

Center Table
Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company · 1870–75

Interior of a Dressing Room with Tented Ceiling
François Etienne Villeret, French, ca. 1800 - 1866 · 1848

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Bust of an Official
Artist not stated in the record · 380–343 BCE

Second Empire Salon
Unknown, French · 1850–60

Mastaba Tomb of Perneb
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2381–2323 BCE

A Sitting Room with a Writing Table
Wilhelm Amandus Beer, 1837 – 1907 · 1867

Fire screen (Écran) (part of a set)
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Purse with Egyptian ornament
Sloan & Company · ca. 1880

Hexagonal table
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Design for a Bourgeois Biedermeier Interior
R. Haes · 1853–58

Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944 B.C.

Apartments of Queen Elizabeth of Prussia, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin
Elizabeth Pochhammer, German, active Berlin, 1864–1880 · 1864

Dismantled Coffin of Khety
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1800 B.C.

Tablecloth
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1912

Square Piano
Robert Nunns · 1853

Design for a Looking Glass and Console Table
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–30

The Coronation of the Virgin
Annibale Carracci · after 1595

Egyptian Hall, Mansion House, from "Ackermann's Repository"
Artist not stated in the record · 1809
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. 50 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 49667 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-08 10:53 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.