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 “Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Shells and Seaweed Design” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Shells and Seaweed Design
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Buttons
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Ornament Design with Seaweed and Shells
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Casket with scenes from the Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Ornamental Design with Coral, Seaweed, and Shells
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Button
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Button
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Box for personal accessories (tebako)
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play
Jean Georges (or George) · ca. 1761–62

Water Nymph and Horse
Whiting Manufacturing Company, 1866 – 1926 · ca. 1900

Snuffbox
Mathieu Coiny fils · 1759–60

Project for a Frame
Artist not stated in the record · 1740–1770

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

Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

Pair of scallop-shell dishes
Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers · 1771–73

Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Snuffbox
Jean Frémin · 1756–57

Oyster Shell
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Snuffbox
Barnabé Sageret · 1757–58

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 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. 68 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1591638 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-27 20:00 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.