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. 12 shown for “Shell Inscribed with the Cartouche of Senwosret I” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:58 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Designs for the Border of the Biblical Chronology for the King , 2nd Plate, pl. 36 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

Title Page
Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722 · 1729–37

Page Five from "Cinquième Livre Contenant des Cartouches Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et Gravé par Huquier"
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · after 1751

Title Page from "Premier Livre De Differents morceaux A l'Usage de tous ceux qui s'appliquent aux beuax Arts Inventé Par G.M. Oppenort Architecte du Roy Et Gravé par Huquier," Serie A (Moyen Oppenord)
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · after 1751

"Blackpool"
Artist not stated in the record · 1900–10

Le Toucher
Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

Cartouche Design
Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809 · ca.1760–75

Cartouche Designs
Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, French, 1726 – 1782 · 1759

Design for a Cartouche
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

NOUVEAUX CARTOUCHES CHINOIS
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

Savoyards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Title Page
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3100607 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 2026-08-26 22:58 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.