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 “Design of Patch Box Cover” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:03 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 scenes from the Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Design of Patch Box Cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Box
François-Nicolas Chevance · 1781–82

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

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

Revenge
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Patch box mounted with miniatures
John Miers, English, active 1760 – 1810 · ca. 1785

Box
Jean-Joseph Barrière · 1765–66

Patch box
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–80

Sutra box with dragons amid clouds
Artist not stated in the record

Ecclesiastical cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Patch box
Artist not stated in the record · 1750s

Winter Fog in the Hudson Valley, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–1890

Patch box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Windmill & Rail Road
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Patch box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Mt. Katahdin from Togue Pond, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably 1878–1879

Patch box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Patch box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Mountain River or Lake
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1897

Covered box with floral design
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

L'Interieur de l'Abbaye de Westminster (Interior of Westminster Abbey)
Chez Daumont, active 18th 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. 367 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2880526 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 2026-09-05 07:03 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.