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 “Padded Case” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Padded Case
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Dress designed by Ann Lowe
Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · mid-1950s

Square Piano
George Astor · 1784–98

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

Square Piano
Corneille Charles Emanuel van der Does · ca. 1800

Bottle case and cover
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Rectangular Octave Virginal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Tintype of James Washington
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Upright Piano
Friedrich Bernhard Voigt · 1832

Glasses of Henry W. Dennis with eyeglass case
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Upright piano and reed organ
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Instrument case owned by Stanely Clarke
Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century

Saya Inrō with Pine and Ivy (obverse) and Bamboo Grove (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 19th century

Chatelaine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

Claviorganum
Lorenz Hauslaib · 1598

Chest of Drawers
John Goddard · 1755–85

Vase
Fredolin Kreischmann · ca. 1895–98

Armchair
Georges Jacob · ca. 1785

Cuneiform tablet case impressed with two cylinder seals, for tablet 66.245.20a: statement before witnesses
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 20th–19th century BCE
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. 39 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 24275 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 2026-09-03 02:31 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.