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. 20 shown for “Leather box” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories
James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Tête-à-Tête Tea Service with Leather Box
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1780

Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1701–50

Nécessaire (one of a pair)
John Barbot · ca. 1760

Boxing headgear worn by Muhammad Ali
Everlast Worldwide, Inc., founded 1910 · ca. 1973

Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories
Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818

Tweeter box speakers used as part of a DJ setup
Artist not stated in the record · 1970s

Miniature collector's cabinet
Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Speed bag gloves used by Muhammad Ali
Artist not stated in the record · 1970-1979

Triptych with the Mandylion
The Kremlin Armory Workshops, Moscow · 1637

Le Boxeur JACK JOHNSON
Artist not stated in the record · 1913

Armor (Gusoku) with Box
Neo Masanobu 根尾正信 · 19th century; helmet bowl, early 18th century

Ambrotype portrait of Creed Miller with star-shaped military identification pin
Unidentified · 1864

Leather box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

Hat Box Used by Ethel L. Payne
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Smith and Wesson .44 Double-Action Revolver for George Jay Gould (1864–1923), serial no. 23402, with Case and Cleaning Brush
Smith & Wesson · 1888–89

Cased Pair of Percussion Pistols with Accessories
Louis-Julien Gastinne-Renette · dated 1856

Breech-Loading Rimfire Cartridge Pistol with Case and Accessories
Louis Nicolas Auguste Flobert · ca. 1855

Box
Artist not stated in the record · 15th 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. 238 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. 123045 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 07:56 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.