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 “Esther Scroll and Case” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 18:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Esther Scroll and Case
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Cartel Clock Case Design
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1738

Wall clock (cartel) with movement of later date
Jacques Caffieri · case ca. 1745–49; movement ca. 1756

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

Mantel clock (horloge de cheminée)
Jean-Joseph de Saint Germain · ca. 1745

Case
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Scroll
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–19th century

Designs for Clock Cases and Bronze Figures
André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732 · ca. 1715

Goa Stone and Gold Case
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Mantel Clock Case Design
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1738

Watch case
George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Designs for Candlesticks, Cartel Clock Case, and a Trophy
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777–78

Six Jewel Rivers
Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Designs for Two Incense Burners and a Cartel Clock Case
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

Lacquer Mirror Case
Fathallah Shirazi · dated 1295 AH/1878 CE

Cutlery sheath and cap
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Scarab with Scroll and Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740–1640 B.C.

Cutlery case
Artist not stated in the record · 1750

Qur'an Case
Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Clock and key
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Needle case and bobbin
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Trophy Cup and Case
Abraham Drentwet, German, 1647 – 1727 · 1773–75
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. 426 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. 1468235 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-04 18:41 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.