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 “Mirror Case with amorous scenes” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Ceiling Design with Rinaldo and Armida, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1804–05

Mirror Case with amorous scenes
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Mirror Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

Mirror from Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Mirror Case with scenes of paired lovers
Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

La Demande en Marriage
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40

Maidens and a Victory
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–15

Case Bottle with an Amorous Couple and a Lady with a Deer
Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Ivory Mirror Case with a Falconing Party
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1330–60

Mirror and case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Wall with Central Mirror
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 18th century

Mirror Case Depicting the Meeting of Nasir al-Din Mirza and Tsar Nicholas I in Erivan and Satin Pouch
Muhammad Isma'il Isfahani · dated 1271 AH/1854 CE

Traveling Dressing Case
Thomas Whitehouse, British, active 1848-98 · 1875

Mantel clock with alarm
Franz Xavier Gegenreiner · case ca. 1710, movement ca. 1760–70

Hand Mirror with Scenes from the Story of Medea
Artist not stated in the record · 1561

Desk (Secretary)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–35

Bootsy Collins Space Bass guitar owned by Bootsy Collins
Artist not stated in the record · July 2002

Mirror Case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350
Mirror, Life Jacket, Glenn, Friendship 7
Unknown
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. 98 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. 263708 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-05 06:13 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.