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 Chimneypiece with Alternative Suggestions” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:16 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 Chimneypiece with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

Pair of vases
Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Design for a Chimneypiece with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1775

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1774, with later additions

Design for a Chimneypiece, with Alternative Suggestions for the Overmantel Frame
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Design for a Chimneypiece
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Design for a Chimneypiece
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Design for a Chimneypiece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris
Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Project for a Case in a Vestry with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1800

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Project for the Decoration of an Entablature with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Project for a sepulchral monument. With alternative suggestions.
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Recto: Design for a Bottle with a Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
Théodore Géricault · 1818

Project for the entrance wall of a salon with alternative suggestions
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1760–70
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. 1215 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. 2591002 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 2026-09-03 17:16 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.