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 “Project for a Chimney Piece” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Chimneypiece (cheminée)
Jean Le Pautre · ca. 1665–70

Project for a Chimney Piece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

A Hypocrite and a Slanderer
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · ca. 1770–83

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · ca. 1767

Lion (one of a pair)
Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Pope Innocent X
Alessandro Algardi · ca. 1690

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

Design for a Chimney Piece
Anonymous, Italian, 19th century · 1800–1900

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · ca. 1767

Design for a Chimney Piece
Anonymous, British, 18th century · late 18th century

Chimney Piece Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

Design for a Chimney Piece
Anonymous, British, 18th century · 18th century

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

Hall Chimney-Piece, Houghton Hall, Norfolk
Isaac Ware · 1735

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

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

Chimney Piece Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

Lucretia
Philippe Bertrand · 1704 or earlier

Title Page: Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · mid- 18th–late 18th century

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Chimney Piece Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with two drawings: (a): Salon Chimney, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation; (b): Salon Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk
Isaac Ware · 1735

Chimney Piece Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55
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. 670 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. 2514509 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-06 16:54 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.