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. 14 shown for “Triple Choir Stall with Canopy” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Triple Choir Stall with Canopy
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Choir Stalls, Chichester
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1879–80

Canopied Seat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Design for Five Choir Stalls
Artist not stated in the record · 1580

Panel with Pilate Washing his Hands
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Decoration of the Choir of a Florentine Church for a Medici Funeral Celebration
Alfonso Parigi, Italian, 1606 – 1656 · 1620-1625

Section of the Wall of a Nunnery Chapel with the Choir
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Lit en chaire à precher
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1795–1800

View of Choir With Rood Screen in Church of Notre Dame
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

An altar with a structure for the exhibition of a cross, probably a Holy Sepulchre
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Water color; A vegetable stall
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1827
Livre Curieux et Utile pour Les Sçavans, et Artists. Composé de trois Alphabets de Chiffres, Simples, doubles et triples.
Nicolas Verien, French, active 1685 – 1724 · 1685
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. 43 matched · 24 examined · 21 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 250338 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-02 22:40 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.