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 “Fire Screen: The Sense of Taste” — 40 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:12 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.

Fire Screen: The Sense of Taste
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Le Gout (Taste) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1720–1770

Sense of Taste, Plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru exarati (Images of the Five Senses Engraved for the Benefit of the Goldsmith)
Crispijn de Passe the Elder, Dutch, ca. 1565 - 1637 · ca. 1580

Sense of Taste
Paul Scarron, French, 1610 - 1660 · mid- 17th century

The Sense of Taste
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · ca. 1740

Taste, from "Senses"
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

Embroidered picture
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

A Moorish Smoking Room
Emmanuel Coulange-Lautrec, French, 1824 – 1898 · 1856

Le Gout
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

Le Gout
François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · ca. 1736-55

Fire Bucket, "Marsh, Capen & Lyons"
unknown · 1831

Fire Bucket, "W. Forbes"
unknown · 1820
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. 6618880 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-01 22:12 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.