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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
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

Surtout
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

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

Grand Salon from the Hôtel de Tessé, Paris
Nicolas Huyot · ca. 1768–72, with later additions

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

Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set)
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

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

Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Censer and Candelabrum Design
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Tester bed (lit à la duchesse en impériale)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1782–83

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

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer
Edgar Degas · modeled 1881, cast 1922, modern tutu

Chimney Piece Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

Adam
Auguste Rodin · modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910

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

Boudoir from the Hôtel de Crillon
Pierre-Adrien Paris · ca. 1777–80

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

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

SUCRIER A CAFÉ
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

Jewish Woman of Algiers
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862

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

Microscope
Claude-Siméon Passemant · ca. 1750

Profil du costé de la cour de l’Hostel de Liancourt
Jean Marot, French, 1619 - 1679 · ca.1635–ca.1660
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.