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 “Mantelpiece from the château at Omerville” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mantelpiece from the château at Omerville
Artist not stated in the record · 1515–20

Design for a Chimneypiece
Pietro Camporese the Younger, Italian, Roman, 1792–1873 · 1830

Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)
Royal Workshops at Greenwich · dated 1527

Bed alcove and chimney mantel
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Chapel from Le Château de la Bastie d'Urfé
Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli) · ca. 1547–48

Design for a Mantelpiece with Alternative Suggestions
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse par M. de Fénélon ; avec figures en taille-douce, dessinées par MM. Cochin et Moreau le jeune
François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon · 1790

Design for a Mantelpiece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

The Hunters Return to the Castle (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Wall Elevation for a Salon with Mantelpiece
Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · ca. 1785

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Wall Elevation, probably for the Banqueting Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

The Hunters Enter the Woods (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Design for a Mantelpiece with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1720

The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Château at Villeneuve
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1892

The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Designs for a Mantelpieces
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1720

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Design for Wall Decoration for the South Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

The Toilette of Venus
François Boucher · 1751

The Watzmann from the Grounds of the Château in Aigen, near Salzburg, Austria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June - August 1868

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Refugees from Chateau Thierry Section
Townsend, Harry · 1918
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. 551 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1468521 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-04 02:32 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.