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 Slaying a Lion” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plate with David Slaying a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Sketch, Hercules Slaying the Lion (?)
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Embroidered picture
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Ornament Design with Hercules
François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

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

Designs for a Niche with Religious Attributes
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Overdoor Design Set Within a Vault
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Plate 37, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)
Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

Oval table
David Roentgen · ca. 1774–80

Design for a Pendant Trophy
René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723 · 1738–61

Writing table (table à écrire)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1755

Coat of Arms with a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · 1544

Armchair en cabriolet
David Roentgen · ca. 1785

5c "Search for Peace" - Lions plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · May 10, 1967

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

Decoration d'une Porte à placards, traittée dans le même gout que la precedente.
Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1686-1742

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

Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1758–1823

Plate with the Arming of David
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Vase (Plate 1 of a Series)
Enea Vico, Italian, 1523–1567 · 1543
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. 1243 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1991840 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-26 22:12 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.