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 Peonies” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 03:28 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

Design for a Plate
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

A Bouquet of Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1760

Combination table
Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

A Bouquet of Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1760

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

Semy doubles et Bruyere
Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786 · 1755-68

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

Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1880

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
![Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket], by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-1938-58-865MattFlynn.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket]
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French, 1636–1699 · ca. 1680

Small desk with folding top (bureau brisé)
Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt · ca. 1685

Napkin
Artist not stated in the record · 1735–40

Mechanical table
Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Flower Study, Peonies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

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

Red Peonies
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920 · 19th–20th century

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

Study of Pale Pink Peonies
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Study of Peonies
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

Mechanical table (Table mécanique)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1778

Study of Peony Stalk with Blossoms
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th 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. 13800 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 328299 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 03:28 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.