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 “Boys with leaves and boxes” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 20:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Boys with leaves and boxes
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Water color; A fruit stall in Naples at Christmas
Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1828

Settee
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · ca. 1885

Little Boy Blue
Grace Lincoln Temple, 1865–1953 · 1890–1892

Boy with leaves and box
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Design for Ceiling Ornament
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740

Boy with leaves and box
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Two Sleeping Children with Sheep
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1758–63

Pair of tea caddies and a sugar box in a case
Paul de Lamerie · 1738/39

Girandole (Candelabra) Design
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1775–94

Toilet box containing three smaller boxes
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1761

Woman's gloves
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Flora, with a Boy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

Cosmetic Box (Tebako) with Chrysanthemum Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 15th century

Vase, Busts, and Arabesques Ornament Designs
Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Waistcoat
Artist not stated in the record · 1785–1800

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

Photographic postcard of a boy wearing a double-breasted jacket and breeches
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Stacked Food Box (Jūbako) with Taro Plants and Chrysanthemums
Shibata Zeshin · mid-19th century

Design for a clock
Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

Canopic box of Hatnefer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Designs for Ornament and Cases
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · ca. 1703
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. 782 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. 1536828 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-08 20:07 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.