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 “Mademoiselle Dobe, French, active ca. 1736” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play
Jean Georges (or George) · ca. 1761–62

Design for a Watchcase
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1736

Snuffbox
Barnabé Sageret · 1757–58

Design for a Watchcase
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · 1660–1670

Flintlock Gun
De Lacollombe · ca. 1730–40

Design for a Watchcase
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · 1660–1670

Armchair (one of a set of six)
John Mayhew · 1769–71

Design for a Watchcase
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · 1660–1670

Settee (one of a pair)
John Mayhew · 1769–71

Design for a Watchcase
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · 1660–1670

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Watchcase
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · 1660–1670

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Watchcase
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · 1660–1670

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

L'Asie
Mademoiselle Dobe, French, active ca. 1736 · 1736

Portrait of Monsieur Aublet
Guillaume Voiriot · ca. 1782

L'Europe
Mademoiselle Dobe, French, active ca. 1736 · 1736

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

L'Afrique
Mademoiselle Dobe, French, active ca. 1736 · 1736

Seasons and Elements (Air) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Allegorical Figures Representing the Four Continents
Mademoiselle Dobe, French, active ca. 1736 · 1736

The Louis XV Room
Jean-François Roumier · ca. 1720–25, with later additions

L'Amerique
Mademoiselle Dobe, French, active ca. 1736 · 1736
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. 52 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. 248851 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 23:19 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.