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 scenes from the Romance, "The Chatelaine of Vergy"” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:16 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 Scenes from the Romance, “The Chatelaine de Vergy”
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Box with scenes from the Romance, "The Chatelaine of Vergy"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Altarpiece with the Lives of Jesus, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint John the Evangelist
Baldassare degli Embriachi · ca. 1390–1400

Game Box for Playing Senet and Twenty Squares
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1458 BCE

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

Panel with Hunting Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80

Candlestick with Enthronement Scene
Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 13th century

Game Box Inscribed for Taia and His Family
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1347 BCE

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th 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. 618 matched · 24 examined · 1 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 11:16 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.