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 “Hat box with stylized chi dragons” — 53 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hat box with stylized chi dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Processes of Wallpaper Production
Artist not stated in the record · 1882

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Ornamental Vase Design
Louis Doré, French, active 18th century · 1750-1800

Box with chi dragons amid clouds
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Design for Entrance Hall, East Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · ca. 1820

Box with patterns of phoenixes and chi dragons
Artist not stated in the record

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Inlaid Box for the Portuguese Market
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1600

Vase
Maria Longworth Nichols, American, 1849–1932 · 1879–1880

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Rhacomitrium anomodontoides
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1991

Rectangular box in imitation of a pack of books
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Hanging
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Box in the shape of an archaic jade she
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Livery trimming
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
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The Farnese Table
Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Anax parthenope julius
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1939

Fan Mount: Dancers
Edgar Degas · 1879

Design, a Sepulchral Monument for Three Brothers
Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1610

Bursa Reliquary
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Goblet Commemorating the Seven United Provinces and Prince William IV, Governor of the Netherlands
Artist not stated in the record · 1747

Returning Home
Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) · ca. 1695

Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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. 13 matched · 13 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. 414518 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-03 05:39 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.