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 Pulpit” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
All Angels' Church Pulpit and Choir Rail
Karl Theodore Bitter · 1900

Project for a Pulpit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Two projects for a portable pulpit for the church in Offida
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

Design for a Pulpit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683

View of the Pulpit, Saint Sulpice, Paris (Second Project)
Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798 · 1789

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

Model for a Pulpit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

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

Chaire de l’Eglise St Estienne du Mont de Mr. Fremery sur les desseins de Mr. Sarazin
Martin Frémery, French, active ca. 1650 – ca. 1685 · 1657–1716

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

Project: A pulpit shown in profile
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

Baptism of Christ
Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Model for a Pulpit with Staircase
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Bronze man and centaur
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750 BCE

Chaire de l’Eglise de St. Nicolas du Chardonet sur le dessein de Mr. Le Brun
Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716 · 1657–1716

Fragment of a Pulpit (Minbar)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 546 AH/1151 CE

Pulpit from Metropolitan AME
John J. A. Simms, American, ca. 1853 - 1930 · ca. 1870-1890; refinished ca. 1920-1930

Plaque with the Baptism of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Lectern Designs
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Horse Trotting, the Feet Not Touching the Ground
Edgar Degas · modeled after 1878, cast 1920

Design for Pulpit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670
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. 2577 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 2502614 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 21:44 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.