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 “Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ecclesiatstical design for a window topped with angels
Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly · mid-18th century

Ornament Design
Lange, active 1730 – 1750 · mid- 18th century

"Four Seasons" enamel liqueur service
Elias Adam · ca. 1710

Ornament Design
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1765

Ornament Designs
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris
Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Ornament Designs
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Ornament Designs
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

Settee (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Ornament Designs
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature
G. F. R. Molé · 1778 [to 1787]

Title Page
Lange, active 1730 – 1750 · mid- 18th century

Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger · 1757

Cartouche Design
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

Troops on the March
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · ca. 1725

Cartouche Design
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

ex "Kurtz" Violin
Andrea Amati · ca. 1560

Ornament Designs
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · mid- 18th century

Dog Guarding Dead Game
Jean-Baptiste Oudry · 1753

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

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) (part of a set)
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Album of Ornament Designs and Elevations
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780 · 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. 134 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. 627900 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 2026-08-27 21:06 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.