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 “Case (étui) with an amorous inscription” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Case (étui) with an amorous inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1500

Designs for Ornament, Cases, Roundels, and Pendants
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Etui Designs
Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

Watch case
George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Etui and cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1780

Clock with pedestal
André Charles Boulle · ca. 1690

Etui and cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Case Bottle with an Amorous Couple and a Lady with a Deer
Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Etui Designs
Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

Turned cup and cover with inserts and original case
Unidentified · ca. 1620–50

Designs for Ornament and Cases
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · ca. 1703

Qur'an Case
Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Etui
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Saber with Scabbard and Carrying Belt
Georg Hoffmann · early 17th century

Etuis Designs
Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

Smith & Wesson Model 1 ½ Second Issue Revolver (serial no. 30451) with Case
Smith & Wesson · 1869

Flacon. Pomme à Corbin. Etuis.
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Cased Colt Model 1860 Army Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 7569, with Accessories
Samuel Colt · 1861

Flacon. Pomme à Corbin. Etuis.
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ
Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

Trompe-l'Oeil Étui and Seal
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th– late 18th century

Ewer with Molded Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Etui a Peigne
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1774–88
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. 325637 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-04 22:22 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.