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 Window Case” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Architectural woodwork and paneling
George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82

Project for a Window Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Moses presenting the tablets of law
Valentin Bousch · 1532

Project for a Window Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Project for a Window Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Traveling clock watch with alarm
Thomas Tompion · ca. 1680

Window Cases with Alternate Suggestions
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1750–70

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

Design for Elevation of a Window Case
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Sculpture Gallery: Project for the Decoration of a Hall in a Palace during the Reign of the Emperor Napoleon as King of Italy
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Design for a Ground Floor Window Case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Pope Innocent X
Alessandro Algardi · ca. 1690

Design for Window Case and Part of a Colonnade
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · 1740–70

Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers
Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Design for a Window Case
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Pair-case watch
Thomas Tompion · 1682–83

Design for a Window Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

Design for a Window Case
Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1770

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

Design for a Window Frame
Artist not stated in the record · 1730–60
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. 715 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2511034 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 17:20 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.