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Images / art

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 “Souvenir spoon with view of Paris Opera House and finial in form of the arms of Paris” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:34 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Souvenir spoon with view of Paris Opera House and finial in form of the arms of Paris

Souvenir spoon with view of Paris Opera House and finial in form of the arms of Paris

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Surtout, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Surtout

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Two Chandelier Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Chandelier Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris, by Nicolas Huyot

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris

Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Two Chandelier Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Chandelier Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Candelabra Design, by A. Panier, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Candelabra Design

A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1767-1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase astronomical regulator, by Ferdinand Berthoud

Longcase astronomical regulator

Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
Censer and Candelabrum Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Censer and Candelabrum Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tester bed (lit à la duchesse en impériale), by Georges Jacob

Tester bed (lit à la duchesse en impériale)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1782–83

Public domainThe Met
Two Candelabra Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Candelabra Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, by Edgar Degas

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer

Edgar Degas · modeled 1881, cast 1922, modern tutu

Public domainThe Met
Chimney Piece Design, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Chimney Piece Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adam, by Auguste Rodin

Adam

Auguste Rodin · modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910

Public domainThe Met
Two Candelabra Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Candelabra Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boudoir from the Hôtel de Crillon, by Pierre-Adrien Paris

Boudoir from the Hôtel de Crillon

Pierre-Adrien Paris · ca. 1777–80

Public domainThe Met
Two Candelabra Designs, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Two Candelabra Designs

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

Public domainThe Met
SUCRIER A CAFÉ, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

SUCRIER A CAFÉ

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewish Woman of Algiers, by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Elevaon du dedans de la Cour ou sont les remises des Carosses de l’Hostel du Comand. du Gert. proche la porte de Richelieu (Upper Plate) / Elevation de l’entrée de l’Hostel du Comandeur du Gert A Paris proche la porte de Richelieu (Lower Plate), by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Elevaon du dedans de la Cour ou sont les remises des Carosses de l’Hostel du Comand. du Gert. proche la porte de Richelieu (Upper Plate) / Elevation de l’entrée de l’Hostel du Comandeur du Gert A Paris proche la porte de Richelieu (Lower Plate)

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Microscope, by Claude-Siméon Passemant

Microscope

Claude-Siméon Passemant · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Profil du costé de la cour de l’Hostel de Liancourt, by Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679

Profil du costé de la cour de l’Hostel de Liancourt

Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 820 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7484154 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-01 17:34 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.