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 11, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"” — 64 records examined, 1 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 11, 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

Satyr Family with an Obelisk, plate 11 from the Scherzi di Fantasia
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

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

Les amusemens des gentile douauiers, Plate 11 from "Inconvénient"
Auguste-Xavier Leprince, French, 1799 - 1826 · ca. 1825

Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Plate 11 from Cahier d ornements et frises dessinés (Book of Ornaments and Friezes)
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

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

Great African Kingfisher, Plate 11 from Birds of Western Africa
Artist not stated in the record · 1837

Commode (Secrétaire à abattant)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Plate 11, from "Suite de Douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1771

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Plate 11, 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 11, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)
René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

Clock with pedestal
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1690

Ornamental Panel Surmounted with a Head Flanked by Foliage, plate 11 from the Ornamental Panel Surmounted with a Head Flanked by Foliage, from the Livre de Diverses Grotesques peintes dans le Cabinet et Bains de la Reyne Regente, au Palais Royale
Michel Dorigny, 1617 – 1665 · 1647

Desk (bonheur du jour)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1769

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

Writing table (bureau plat)
Gilles Joubert · 1759

Plate 8, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1664

Two wall sconces (Bras de cheminée)
Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1761

Plate 4, 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. 7948 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. 880451 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 2026-09-08 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.