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 pommel scroll design” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:13 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 pommel scroll design
Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Designs for Sword Handles, Pommels, and Dagger Hilts
Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652 · ca. 1615
Box with Pommel Scroll Design
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Dagger Form Knife
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Box with pommel scroll design
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Sword Hilt (Handles) and Guard Designs
Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Designs for Firearms Ornament
Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776 · ca. 1730

China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755

Design for a Carriage Box Seat (Driver’s Seat) and Body
Louis Van Nerven, Dutch, active ca. 1750 · 1755–69

Box with “Pommel Scroll” Design
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Snuff box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

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

Design for a Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword with Alternative Suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

Six Jewel Rivers
Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Design for a Sword Hilt
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · ca. 1750

Sword Pommel
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Design for Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

Box with pommel-scroll design
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Covered Box on Stand
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

Sweetmeat box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660–80

Toledo 1873 Presentation Sword
Artist not stated in the record · 1873

Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Cupids and Scroll Work
Unger Brothers, Newark, New Jersey, 1872 – 1919 · ca. 1896
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. 145 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. 392642 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 22:13 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.