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. 21 shown for “Nécessaire and châtelaine” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Nécessaire
James Cox · ca. 1770–72

necessaire
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Nécessaire
Joseph Martineau, Sr. · mid-18th century

Necessaire
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Nécessaire
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Case
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Nécessaire and châtelaine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

necessaire
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Nécessaire with watch
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Chatelaine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Chatelaine
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–60

Chatelaine Design
Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

Chatelaine
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Design for a Clock, plate 4, from Nouveaux livre de boites de pendulles de coqs et etuys de montres et autres necessaire au Orlogeurs
Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · 1705–12

Châtelaine
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–19th century

Porte Cochere avec Entresol, necessaire aux Sculpteurs et Menuisiers
Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794 · ca. 1768

Nécessaire
John Best · mid-18th century

Chatelaine Design
Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

Nécessaire
Tahan · ca. 1815

Watch and chatelaine
V. Blanck · ca. 1775

Nécessaire
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century
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. 158 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. 1464079 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 01:19 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.