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 “James Smith's 1867 School Desk and Seat Patent Model” — 56 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

James Smith's 1867 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1867

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

James Smith's 1869 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1869

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

James Smith's 1871 School Desks and Seats Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

James Blair's 1867 School Desk Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1867

The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52

Eldridge J. Smith's 1872 School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1872

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

James S. Rankin's 1879 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1879

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Fernando Dibble's 1867 School Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1867

Christ Healing the Blind
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1570

Henry R. Fry's 1875 School Seat Standard Support Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

George Sherwood's 1867 Folding Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1867

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Hamilton S. McRae's 1867 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1867

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

John Peard's 1867 School Desk Patent Model fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1867

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

James Russell's 1871 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1871
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. 16 matched · 16 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. 1662903 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 17:34 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.