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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 “Pair of boxes with melons and butterflies” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:58 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
Pair of Birds on Branch with Roses and Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories
Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818
Pair of Brown Birds on Bouquet with Tulip, Rose, and Snapdragons, with Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
Armor (Gusoku) with Box
Neo Masanobu 根尾正信 · 19th century; helmet bowl, early 18th century
Pair of Brown Birds on Rose Stem with Butterfly and Spider
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
Pair of boxes with melons and butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Pair of Brown Birds with Blossoms, Berries, and a Butterfly
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
Desk (bonheur du jour)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1770
Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller)
Hippolyte Le Bas, French, 1782–1867 · 1817–18
Desk (bonheur du jour)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1769
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830
Settee
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · ca. 1885
Winter Scene
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858
Pair of tea caddies and a sugar box in a case
Paul de Lamerie · 1738/39
Sleeves
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th century
Melon-Shaped Basket with Dark Brown Stripes
Ira Blount · late 20th-early 21st Century
Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30
Family Eating Melon
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1800
Bowl with bitter melons and butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Box in the shape of an egg
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Armor (Rokumai-Dō Gusoku) with Box
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century; cuirass dated 1689
Fire Screen: The Sense of Taste
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750
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. 397 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. 3131863 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-01 19:58 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.