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 7, 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 17:57 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 7, 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

Le Retour d'Ulysse, plate 7 from the Histoire Ancienne
Honore Daumier, French, 1808 – 1879 · 1842

Commode (commode à vantaux) (part of a set)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Hyacinths, Solfatare and Mimosa, Plate 7 from A. C. Van Eeden's "Flora of Haarlem"
Arentine H. Arendsen, Dutch, 1836 - 1915 · ca. 1881

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

Pauvre bibi!! J'en mourai ... peut être, Plate 7 from "Inconvénient"
Auguste-Xavier Leprince, French, 1799 - 1826 · ca. 1825

Mechanical table
Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Blue-Cheeked Bee-Eater, Plate 7 from Birds of Western Africa
Artist not stated in the record · 1837

Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Soldiers, Magus, and Other Figures Observing a Skull and a Tibia on an Altar, plate 7 from the Scherzi di Fantasia
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Adoration of Magi, plate 7 from series "Life of the Virgin"
Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503 · ca. 1490

Mechanical table (Table mécanique)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1778

Bacha de Caramanie (A Pasha from Karamin), plate 7 from Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (The Sultan's Caravan to Mecca)
Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1748

Oval table
David Roentgen · ca. 1774–80

Plate 7, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues
Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Plate 7, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)
Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663 · after 1662

Commode (Secrétaire à abattant)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Plate 7, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)
René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

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

Plate 7, from Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière
Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745 · 1732
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. 10540 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. 1019551 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 17:57 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.