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. 11 shown for “Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Autumn Grasses” — 11 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories
James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Autumn Grasses
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Box for Accessories (Sumiaka-tebako) with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Shells and Seaweed Design
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Decoration Based on a Poem from the Shinkokinshū
Kōami Chōjū · ca. 1633

Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785

Flowers of Spring and Autumn
Ogata Kōrin · shortly after 1701

Snuffbox
Adrien Jean Maximilien Vachette · 1789–90

Stationery Box in Kōdaiji style
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Grooms and horses
Zhao Mengfu · dated 1296 and 1359
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 17:01 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.