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. 13 shown for “Gameboard” — 35 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gameboard
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Mohomet and Saladin
J. H. Bufford and Company · 1847

Gameboard and Gaming Pieces
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Game of Hounds and Jackals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1814–1805 B.C.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Brushpot on Carved Tsuishu Tray (obverse); Gameboard and Markers (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Small Hounds & Jackals Game Board
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1640 B.C.

Board game of the Flower Stage (Hanabutai atari sugoroku)
Toyohara Kunichika · 1883

Chessboard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Chessboard
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Chessboard
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Chessboard
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Chessboard
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Chessboard
Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 17th 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. 62 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 10 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 19:21 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.