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 a vase of flowers” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 14:51 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

Soffit and Vase Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Soffit and Vase Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1770

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

Soffit and Vase Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Combination table
Martin Carlin · ca. 1775

Soffit and Vase Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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

Ornamental Vase Design
P. Moithey, French, active 18th century · 1767

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

Three Vase Designs
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · 1787–95

Mechanical table
Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Table Design with Vases
Pierre Lepautre, French, 1652–1716 · late 17th–early 18th 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

Burner and Vase Designs for Pedestals
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

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

Burner and Vase Designs for Pedestals
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Vase with Flowers
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Oval table
David Roentgen · ca. 1774–80

Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · ca. 1738
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. 38843 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. 3888692 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 2026-08-29 14:51 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.