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. 12 shown for “Wall revetment, marble pattern” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Section of wall, Escalier de la cour ovale, Palace of Fontainebleau, France
Frederick Marschall · ca. 1885

Title Page
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

Title Page
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

"Un des cotes du Pavillon orchestre dans le Jardin des Tuileries, en Juillet 1838"
Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838

The Study of Prince Karl of Prussia
Eduard Gaertner, 1801 – 1877 · 1848

Alternate Designs for an Interior Wall Elevation
Jean-Baptiste Le Roux, French, ca. 1677-1746 · early 18th century

Sala del Thorvaldsen, Rome
Franz Heinrich, German, 1802–1890 · 1845

Salon Interior
A. Redkovsky, Russian, active mid–19th century · 1858

Interior Wall Elevations
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1696–1740

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Design
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1712

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 45353 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 2026-08-31 23:17 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.