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. 18 shown for “Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair)” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 21:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735–39

Prieuses / Prieuses pliantes
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Study of Angels
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair)
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1786

Close Stool Pan (Commode Pot)
Artist not stated in the record · 1778 - 1807

White and lavender gauze floral curtains
Unidentified · Late 20th Century

Folding stool
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Study for The Iron Bedstead of King Og, Plate 324, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Design for a Mausoleum
Artist not stated in the record · 1790

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Section of a Circular Pavilion
Artist not stated in the record · 1790

Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1785

Plate 1954, Modes de Paris (Paris Fashion), Petit Courrier des Dames, Journal des Modes (Little Ladies' Mail, Fashion Journal)
Samuel and Joseph Fuller, London, England · August 31, 1843

Chimneypiece (cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Four-leaf folding screen (Paravent)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé)
Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt · ca. 1685

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64
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. 273 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. 3968588 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 21:16 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.