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 “Circular Box (Pyxis) with Scenes from the Infancy of Jesus” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Circular Box (Pyxis) with Scenes from the Infancy of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

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

Designs for Watchcase Lids or Medallions
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

Cylindrical Box (Pyxis)
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–75

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

Panel from a Rectangular Box
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–early 11th century

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

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

Semi-circular Figural Scene with Central Figure Possibly Ascending
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Terracotta pyxis (box) with lid
Painter of Philadelphia 2449 · ca. 460 BCE

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Friezes
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

Circular Box (Pyxis) with the Miracle of Christ’s Multiplication of the Loaves
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion and Flowers
Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686 · ca. 1660-70

Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India
Artist not stated in the record · mid-500s

Birdcage with fishbowl
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1743

Folding Shrine with the Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Overdoor with Harbor Scene
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–1830

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

Plate, from the Industrial Arts Dessert Service (Assiette Platte, Service des Arts Industriels)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 · ca. 1821–1827
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. 103 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. 3106611 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-28 05:46 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.