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 6, from "Desseins de Queleques Conduites de Troupes, Canons, et Ataques de Villes"” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 17:50 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 6, 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 6, from "Cahier de Six Feuilles de Boeufs et Vaches"
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1771

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Plate 6, from "Divers Ornemens"
Artist not stated in the record · 1730-1740

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

Devouement force, Plate 6 from "Inconvénient"
Auguste-Xavier Leprince, French, 1799 - 1826 · ca. 1825

Oval table
David Roentgen · ca. 1774–80

Great Senegal Swall, Plate 6 from Birds of Western Africa
Artist not stated in the record · 1837

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

Plate 6 from "Stuben-Ofen"
Johann Jakob Schübler, German, 1689–1741 · ca. 1728

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

Plate 6, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)
Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1768

Plate 6, from Die Folge der phantastischen Schmucksträße (Suite of Fantastic Ornamental Bouquets)
Wendel Dietterlin the Younger, German, active 1610–1614 · 1614

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1773

Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 6 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI
Artist not stated in the record · 1778

Microscope
Claude-Siméon Passemant · ca. 1750

Trophy with Harvest Implements, Plate 6 from "Suite de différentes Attributs, Trophées, et Groupes de Fleurs," Suite II
Artist not stated in the record · 1778

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Soffits and Vases, Plate 6 from "Cahier de Trophées, Soffites et Vases," Parte IX, Cahier I
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1780

Commode
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Plate 6, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623
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. 7661 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. 904795 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 17:50 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.