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. 15 shown for “Plate with the Presentation of David to Saul” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:45 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

Police Gazette Championship Belt and presentation case awarded to Ezzard Charles
Artist not stated in the record · 1948

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Plaque for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin L. Powell
United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775 · ca. 1989-1993

Plate with the Presentation of David to Saul
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Plaque for Vietnam War service presented to Major Colin L. Powell
1st Infantry Regiment · September 1969

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

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

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

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

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

Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Oval table
David Roentgen · ca. 1774–80

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1775
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. 2594 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. 3393808 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:45 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.