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. 19 shown for “Mirror case” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:31 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 Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75

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

Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710
Mirror, Life Jacket, Glenn, Friendship 7
Unknown

Lacquer Mirror Case
Fathallah Shirazi · dated 1295 AH/1878 CE

Designs for Ornament, Cases, Roundels, and Pendants
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680–1700

Ornament Designs for Watchmakers, Goldsmiths, Chasers, Engravers and Other Curious Persons
Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · 1703

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

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
Life Jacket with Camera Mirror, Glenn, Friendship 7
Unknown

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

Mirror Case
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Mirror Case
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Mirror case
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Mirror Case
Zain al-'Abidin · dated 1260 AH/1844–45 CE

Mirror Case
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–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. 253 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. 21757 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:31 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.