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 with hinged cover” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Circular box with hinged cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

with Coin and Stamp Compartment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–38

Money box used by Bishop Richard Allen
Unidentified · early 19th century

Box
François-Nicolas Chevance · 1781–82

Snuffbox mounted with two miniatures
Artist not stated in the record · 1768–75

Coffeepot (part of a service)
Meissen Manufactory · 1723–26

Box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Box with portrait of a woman
Guillaume-Denis Delamotte · 1774–75, portrait ca. 1790

Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Nécessaire with watch
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Inkstand
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Hinged box
Artist not stated in the record · between 1800 and 1899

Floral embroidered purse used by Dinah Washington
Unidentified · 1940s

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

Foot Warmer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Snuffbox with six scenes of country pastimes
Pierre François Drais · 1774–75

Covered pitcher
Wedgwood, English, established 1759 · ca. 1861

Spice box with grater
Nicolas Mahon · 1723–24

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1830

Snuffbox with miniature of Alexander I of Russia
Jean Georges (or George) · 1763–64

Traveling Coffee Service
Gregoire et Cordonnier, French, 1866 – 1868 · 1866–1868

Box with Hinged Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Stand
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. 150 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 368697 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 05:01 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.