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. 17 shown for “Goa Stone and Gold Case” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Goa Stone and Gold Case
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Gold pencil and case owned by the Terrell family
Unidentified · 1863-1954

Apothecary Cabinet
Nicolaus I Kolb · 1617–18

Watch
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock
James Cox · 1766

Knife case
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Saber with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · grip, 18th or 19th century; guard and scabbard, 19th century; blade, dated A.H. 1099/1688 CE; decoration on blade, 19th century

Gold wireless microphone and black case used on The Oprah Winfrey Show
Artist not stated in the record · 2009

Smallsword with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60
Case
Gavet Coutelier, France · 1809–19

Pair-case automaton watch
James Cox · ca. 1770

Letter case
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Watch
Wilhelm Peffenhauser · watch ca. 1650, cameo 16th–17th century

Armored Cavalryman
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Nécessaire
James Cox · ca. 1770–72

Saber and Dart with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Saber with Scabbard and Carrying Belt
Georg Hoffmann · early 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. 357 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. 1506595 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 02:32 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.