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. 21 shown for “Radel, German, active 1760 – 1770” — 49 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Two Chair Designs
Radel, German, active 1760 – 1770 · 1849–66

Writing table (part of a set)
Joseph Baumhauer · ca. 1770

Two Sofa Designs
Radel, German, active 1760 – 1770 · 1849–66

The Microcosm of London, or London in Miniature, Vol. I
William Henry Pyne · 1808–11

Design for a Chaise Longue and a Sofa
Radel, German, active 1760 – 1770 · 1849–66

The Prince of Whales or the Fisherman at Anchor
George Cruikshank · May 1, 1812

Machines de Théatres (Theatrical Machinery), pl. XV, vol. 10 from Encyclopédie, ou, arts et des métiers (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts)
Denis Diderot, French, 1713–1784 · 1772

The Microcosm of London, or London in Miniature, Vol. II
William Henry Pyne · 1808–11

Album of Furniture Designs
Sarazin, French, 1846 – 1880 · 1849–66

Beaker
Jean-Jacques Kirstein · ca. 1770

Frontispiece
Christian Wink, German, 1738 - 1797 · ca. 1770

St. John the Evangelist
Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1744

PLAN DE BADENBOURG EXECUTE DANS LE JARDIN DE NYMPHENBOURG. MDCCLXXI
Joseph Effner, German, 1687 – 1745 · ca. 1771

The Mourning Virgin
Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1744

Album of Architectural Prints
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · ca. 1770

Viola
Robert Horne · 1757

A Bacchante
Artist not stated in the record · 1760-1770

Portrait of Louise Elisabeth Bourbon, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Quastalls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760-1770

Cup and Trembleuse Saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1770

Ladies' Fashion: Hairdressing and Hats
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770-1780
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 363 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 2026-09-05 01:11 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.