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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 “Strapwork with Flowers and Jewels” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:21 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.
Strapwork with Flowers and Jewels

Strapwork with Flowers and Jewels

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Title Page

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Plate 6, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 6, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Plate 13, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 13, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux), by Martin Carlin

Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Design, by Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581

Pendant Design

Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581 · 1581

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chalice

Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1230–50

Public domainThe Met
Plate 11, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 11, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase of Flowers (Pink Background), by Odilon Redon

Vase of Flowers (Pink Background)

Odilon Redon · ca. 1906

Public domainThe Met
Plate 12, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 12, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Plate 16, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 16, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock, by James Cox

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock

James Cox · 1766

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Design, by Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581

Pendant Design

Hans Collaert the Elder, Flemish, ca. 1530 - 1581 · 1581

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

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Plate 10, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 10, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature secretary incorporating a watch, by James Cox

Miniature secretary incorporating a watch

James Cox · ca. 1766–72

Public domainThe Met
Plate 18, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 18, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bamboo in the Wind, by Yi Jeong (artist name: Taneun)

Bamboo in the Wind

Yi Jeong (artist name: Taneun) · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate 15, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 15, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stand with Autumn Grasses and Flowers

Stand with Autumn Grasses and Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate 8, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers), by René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625

Plate 8, from Livre de bijouterie (Book of Designs for Goldsmiths and Jewelers)

René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625 · ca. 1570

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. 356 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1524469 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 2026-08-28 06:21 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.