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 “Hinged box” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hinged Box in the Form of a Tortoise
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 13th century

Kit, Medical, Douglas World Cruiser, Lt. Lowell Smith (REPLICA)
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1924

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1700

Hinged wooden box owned by members of the Ellis family
Unidentified · 1875-1920

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1660–1700

Oval snuffbox with circular portrait miniature
Henry Spicer, 1743 - 1804 · ca. 1775

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–38

Carved Box with Hinged Lid and Latch
Ira Blount · 1988

Box
John Thurston · 1660–85

Box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Hinged box
Artist not stated in the record · between 1800 and 1899

Art Nouveau stamp box
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th-early 20th Century

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Box with hinged lid
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century?

Palm-leaf Manuscript Storage Box
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Box
François-Nicolas Chevance · 1781–82
ALSRC, Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container, Apollo 12
Union Carbide, Nuclear Division

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Money box used by Bishop Richard Allen
Unidentified · early 19th century

Box
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Native American Man
Unger Brothers, Newark, New Jersey, 1872 – 1919 · ca. 1904

Sweetmeat box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660–80

Woman's Leg
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th 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. 192 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. 117039 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-28 08:00 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.