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 with boys at play” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:10 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 with boys at play
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Playing at Soldiers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Snuff bottle with boys at play
Artist not stated in the record

Boys Playing with a Bird
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

Snuff bottle with boys at play
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Boys at Play
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775–1800

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

LE PETIT CHARIOT / LES MANGEURS DE CERISES
François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755 · mid- 18th century

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Lecce Painter · ca. 375–350 BCE

"Saltarello Romano," Dancing Peasants In The Neighborhood of Rome
Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835 · 1807–08

Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–95

Merrymakers at Shrovetide
Frans Hals · ca. 1616–17

Advertisement for McLaughlin's Coffee from the Children's Scenes and Life Series
Cosack & Co., Buffalo, New York, USA · ca. 1892

Pipe Organ
Thomas Appleton · 1830

"Saltarello Romano," Dancing Peasants In The Neighborhood Of Rome
Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835 · 1807–08

Panel from a Rectangular Box
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–early 11th century

Jack of Clubs
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

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

Chimneypiece Design with Side Paneling
Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1727

Game of Hounds and Jackals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1814–1805 B.C.

Four of Spades
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

Relief of offering bearers carrying boxes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Photograph of men running with a football in front of two houses
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920
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. 392 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. 562257 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 23:10 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.