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 with David's Confrontation with Eliab” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 15:32 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

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

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

Towel fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Plate with David's Confrontation with Eliab
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Purse
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Oval table
David Roentgen · ca. 1774–80

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath
Artist not stated in the record · 629–30

Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Armchair en cabriolet
David Roentgen · ca. 1785

3c Admirals David G. Farragut and David D. Porter plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Plate with David Anointed by Samuel
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Plate with David Slaying a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Medici vase with a scene of the park at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1811

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
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. 949 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. 402208 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-10 15:32 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.