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 “Folding Case with Characters for Longevity (Shou and Kao)” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Folding Case with Characters for Longevity (Shou and Kao)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Case Bottom for Folding Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

Case (Inrō) with Design of Cicada on Tree Trunk
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Wire frame, half sphere on square with folding stand
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century (textile); 19th century (chair: with earlier parts)

Covered Box on Stand
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

Books and Scholars' Possessions
Unidentified artist · early 20th century

The elevation of a case for a vestry
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

Madonna and Child
Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Taizan ware vase with design of the character for "longevity"
Taizan Yohei · 1850-1860

Pipa (琵琶 )
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Case for chaplain kit used by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley
Artist not stated in the record · 1939-1944

Dish with characters for longevity and health (shou kang)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

German leather stamp case
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1950

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Needle case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820
Inrō with Chrysanthemums and Auspicious Characters for Longevity
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Horn and Silver Folding Spoon with Leather Case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Sewing case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1839

Panel with Longevity (Shou) Characters
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Folding fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

Panel with Longevity (Shou) Characters
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Case and eyeglasses
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–1850
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. 103 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1572592 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-29 02:23 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.