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 “Openwork furniture plaque with a male youth” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Plaque
Thomas Bentley, English, 1730 – 1780 · ca. 1778

Openwork furniture plaque with a male youth
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Rolling Armchair
Springmeyer Brothers, 1863 - 1867 · 1860–67

Barberini Cabinet
Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23
Rolling Armchair
Springmeyer Brothers, 1863 - 1867 · 1860–67

Cabinet
Jean Brandely · 1867

Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870–80

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Astronomical table clock
Jeremias Metzger · 1568

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Bronze handle from a cista (toiletry box)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Four Continents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Terracotta plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE

Three Graces
Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797 · 1803

Cloisonné furniture plaque with two griffins in a floral landscape
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th century BCE

Porcelain Plaque for an Item of Furniture
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1766

Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 8th–7th century BCE
Royal Jewel Cabinet with Sèvres Plaques
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · 1825–1826

Secretary
Martin Carlin · ca. 1781–85

Designs for Two Frames
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780
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. 208 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. 2387485 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 19:28 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.