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 “Plate 10, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 17:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Plate 10, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Plate 10, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)
Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Plate 10, from "Suite de Douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1771

Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Le courage à l'Epreuve, Plate 10 from "Inconvénient"
Auguste-Xavier Leprince, French, 1799 - 1826 · ca. 1825

Commode (Secrétaire à abattant)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Fork-Tailed Blue-Vented Bee-Eater, Plate 10 from Birds of Western Africa
Artist not stated in the record · 1837

Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Plate 10, from set of Flowers in a Basket
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699 · ca. 1680

Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

The Happy Satyr with His Family, plate 10 from the Scherzi di Fantasia
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

Microscope
Claude-Siméon Passemant · ca. 1750

Plate 10, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)
René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Ornamental Panel Surmounted by a Basket of Flowers and a Garland, plate 10 from the Livre de Diverses Grotesques peintes dans le Cabinet et Bains de la Reyne Regente, au Palais Royale
Michel Dorigny, 1617 – 1665 · 1647

Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Plate 10, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · after 1662

Commode
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Plate 5, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

Clock with pedestal
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1690

Plate 8, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664
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. 5874 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 932517 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-08 17:57 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.