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 “Lectern for Reading Scripture” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 20:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lectern for Reading Scripture
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–1525

Lectern used by Reverend Dr. Clay Evans at Fellowship Baptist Church
Artist not stated in the record · 1973

Lectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist
Giovanni Pisano · ca. 1301, with later additions

Designs for Torcheres, a Lectern, and a Sconce
Lange, active 1730 – 1750 · mid- 18th century

Lectern in the Form of an Eagle
Jehan Aert van Tricht · ca. 1500

Lectern Designs
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Adjustable reading and writing table (pupitre à crémaillère, servant de table)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1760–65

Lutrin
Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

Tapestry with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1410–20

Lectern used at the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station, Indiana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887

Mechanical table (Table mécanique)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1778

Design for a Lectern
Antoine François Vassé, French, 1681 - 1736 · ca. 1732

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Section of an Apse
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1815

Reading the Scriptures
Thomas Waterman Wood · 1874

RECUEIL DE NOUVEAUX ORNEMENTS Composés Dans le Gout le plus Moderne Destinés a être Executés en Or, Argent, Cuivre et autres Metaux DÉDIÉ A MESSIEURS Les Orfevres, Fondeurs et Ciseleurs Par leur très Humble et très Obeisant Serviteur Mondhare
Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1763

The Triumph of Fame
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1502–4

Table à 4 Pupitres, pour un Concert
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Reading a sutra by moonlight
Unidentified artist · ca. 1332

Girandole à Plateau, Table de Nuit, Pupitre à Tiroirs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Relief with the Annunciation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Study for "Scientific Group"
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1858

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice
Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Table à 4 Pupitres, pour un Concert
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788
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. 38 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. 447382 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-30 20:49 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.