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 “Portable Cabinet with Drawers” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Apothecary Cabinet
Nicolaus I Kolb · 1617–18

Cabinet
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1900

Cabinet on stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Cabinet on Stand
Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1700

Cabinet
Jean Brandely · 1867

cabinet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Cabinet
Melchior Baumgartner · ca. 1655–59, engraved decorations ca. 1825–50

Design for Large Two-Part Cabinet Built into Niche
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Cabinet
Herman Doomer · ca. 1640–50

Tall China Cabinet with Broken Pediment
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Portable Cabinet with Drawers
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Singer treadle sewing machine cabinet table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Cabinet
George A. Schastey & Co. · 1884–85

Design for Sideboard with Raised Side Cabinets and Upper Shelf
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Miniature collector's cabinet
Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Design for Writing Table with Top Cabinet and Ionic Capitals Atop Legs
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Architectural woodwork and paneling
George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Tall China Cabinet with Eagle Motif
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Medal cabinet
William Vile · 1760–61

Design for Corner China Cabinet with Chinese Fretwork
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Barberini Cabinet
Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23

Design for Sideboard with Nine Drawers
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

Coin cabinet
Charles Percier · ca. 1809–19

Design for Kidney-Shaped Writing Table with Six-Drawer Upper Cabinet
A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05
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. 101 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 251179 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 2026-08-28 10:46 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.