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. 12 shown for “Inlaid Box for the Portuguese Market” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

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

Jug with Portuguese arms
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–40

Dish with IHS monogram, armillary sphere, and Portuguese royal arms
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–40

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Dish
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Watch case
George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Plaque with Two Portuguese Merchants
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70

Hip ornament with Portuguese head
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 16th–19th century

Panel from a Rectangular Box
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–early 11th century

Inlaid box for cosmetic vessels of Sithathoryunet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1813 B.C.
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. 528 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:59 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.