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. 12 shown for “Box with scene of a zither (qin) gathering” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:15 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.

Box with scene of a zither (qin) gathering
Artist not stated in the record · 1403–1424

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30
Side Table
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Snuffbox with six scenes of country pastimes
Pierre François Drais · 1774–75

Covered box with the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden
Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Six Jewel Rivers
Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

On a Rustic Bridge, Carrying a Zither
Urakami (Uragami) Gyokudō 浦上玉堂 · 1814

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Elegant gathering in a garden
Unidentified artist · 15th–16th century

Lozenge-Shaped Dish with Garden Scene
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–17th 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. 39 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. 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 23:15 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.