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 the Women at Jesus' Tomb” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta pyxis (box)
Penthesilea Painter · ca. 465–460 BCE

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

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

Cartoon for cotton printing: "Le Tombeau de Jean-Jacques Rousseau a Ermenonville."
Artist not stated in the record · after 1780

Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)
Artist not stated in the record · 860–880

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Circular Box (Pyxis) with the Women at Jesus' Tomb
Artist not stated in the record · 500s

Tomb Decorations in the Museum of Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

Plaque with the Holy Women at the Sepulchre
Artist not stated in the record · early 10th century

Architectural Fantasy with Tomb and Ruins, Plate from "Rovine Inventione de Giovan. Loren, Legeay Architet. Intagliate da lui stesso in Luce 1768"
Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86 · 1768, published 1770

Tabernacle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210

A Tomb Monument of Charles IV of Lorraine
Sebastien Leclerc, French, 1637–1714 · 1664

Terracotta pyxis (box)
Meidias Painter · ca. 420–410 BCE

Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze
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

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1743

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

Virtue Paying Homage at the Tomb of Washington
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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

Tomb Designs
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

Terracotta pyxis (box)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 420–400 BCE

Box and cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

The Assumption of the Virgin
Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Embroidered picture
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th 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. 134 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1437074 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 12:01 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.