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 “Two table valances with dragons” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 08:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Two table valances with dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 1783–89

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Table frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Table valance with dragons and phoenix
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Valance with chef
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–99

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–75

Table valance with dragon
Artist not stated in the record · 1820

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Valance for Table
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Valances
Wetter Freres, France, 1802 · late 18th century

Console table (one of a pair)
François Rournier · ca. 1735–40

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

Console table (one of a pair)
François Rournier · 1735–40

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Assumption of the Virgin
Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Le Parc du Chateau
Jean-Baptiste Huët, French, 1745–1811 · ca. 1783

Aquamanile in the Form of a Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200

Le Jouer de Cornemuse (The Bagpipe Player)
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

Rectangular cauldron (Fangding) with footed cover (Zu)
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century BCE

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Still Life with Silver
Alexandre François Desportes · 1720s

Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
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. 35 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. 323358 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-10 08:43 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.