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 “Designs for Snuff Box Covers” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 10:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–38

Designs for Snuff Box Covers
Artist not stated in the record · 1717-1791

Box
Jean-Joseph Barrière · 1765–66

Design for a Snuff Box Cover (verso); Trophy of Hunting (recto)
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · ca. 1750

Box
J. P. M., Paris, France · 1766–67

Design for the Cover of a Snuff Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1780

Box
Claude-François Thierry · 1779–80

Design for the Cover of a Snuff Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1780

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30
![Sallieres et Tabatières [Salt Dishes and Snuff Boxes], plate 69 in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-26809_02-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Sallieres et Tabatières [Salt Dishes and Snuff Boxes], plate 69 in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1740

Box
François-Nicolas Chevance · 1781–82

Ornament Designs for Watchmakers, Goldsmiths, Chasers, Engravers and Other Curious Persons
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

Casket with scenes from the Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Snuff Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1810

Box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Circular snuff box
Claude-Pierre Pottier, French, active 1778 - 1806 · 1779

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

Ornament Designs for Case Covers, Roundels, and Bands
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille
Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Watch case
George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Snuff Box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Covered box from an incense set
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Snuff box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750
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. 471 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. 581164 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 2026-09-06 10:53 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.