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. 15 shown for “Miniature toilet set case” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Miniature secretary incorporating a watch
James Cox · ca. 1766–72

Brisé fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Brisé fan and case
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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

Portrait miniature set on a bracelet
Ebenezer Mack, American · ca. 1790 (portrait miniature); ca. 1830 (bracelet)

Miniature toilet set case
Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1710

Toilet set in original leather case
Fourteen identified German (Augsburg) goldsmiths and other German artisans; Japanese (Imari) porcelain maker · ca. 1743–45

Toilet set case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1743–45

Hercules and Achelous
Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

Toilet box containing four smaller boxes
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1761

Toilet box containing three smaller boxes
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1761

Miniature tabard
Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Nécessaire
James Cox · ca. 1770–72
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. 136 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. 42370 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 00:10 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.