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 “Writing Box with Design of a Cherry Tree and Waterfall” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Mixed Sketches with Chimneys and Waterfall, Berchtesgaden, Germany
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1868

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Study for "Rainy Season in the Tropics"
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1865–1866

Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1780

Waterfall
James Henry Moser, Canadian, 1854–1913 · 1880

Writing Box with Design of a Cherry Tree and Waterfall
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Landscape with a Waterfall
Artist not stated in the record · 1648

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Platter
W. S. Coleman · 1871

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · March 29, 1803

Heart of the Andes
Frederic Edwin Church · 1859

Mountain Stream, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1850–52

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)
Artist not stated in the record · crossbow, ca. 1575–1650; cranequin dated 1562

Imaginary Landscape with Waterfall
Thomas Cole, American, b. England, 1801–1848 · 1870–75

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

A Waterfall
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1855–65

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Design for a Monument flanked by Fountains
Artist not stated in the record · 1700

Writing Box
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Spring Festival
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels
Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Imaginary Landscape with a Tower and Palm Tree
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1868–75
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. 380 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 4081639 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 2026-09-06 00:24 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.