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 “Casket with Erotes and Animals” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Casket with Erotes and Animals
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Casket
Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th century

Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Casket with hinged lid
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

Casket with Warriors and Dancers
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

The Elevation of a Reliquary of a Skull
Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1810

Jewel casket
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Casket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Jewelry casket
Pietro Giusti · 1857

Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Casket with Figural Imagery
Artist not stated in the record · mid-13th century

Casket
Frances Basnet · 1654

Casket
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th or early 17th century

Title Page
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1774–88

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

Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Terracotta pyxis (box)
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century BCE

Embroidered panel for casket
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Casket with Four Guardian Animals on the inner walls, accompanied by an epitaph tablet dated 1197
Artist not stated in the record · 1197

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Album of Ornament Prints: Designs for Girondoles, Candlesticks, Candelabras, Chandeliers, Clocks, Barometers, and Boxes (Caskets)
Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1774–94

Filigree Casket with Sliding Top
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Embroidered picture
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670
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. 64 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. 2615015 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 08:34 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.