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 “Snuff box in book form, inscribed "J. B. F."” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Snuff box in book form, inscribed "J. B. F."
Artist not stated in the record · between 1800 and 1899

"J. Hynam's Royal Patent Congreves & Safety Fire Boxes"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Box
J. P. M., Paris, France · 1766–67

"Smoke Up & Up Fumar Cigars"
Huntley, Boorne, & Stevens · 1870–80

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Bird Motif
Huntley, Boorne, & Stevens · 1870–80

Snuffbox
Daniel Govaers (or Gouers) · 1734–35

Venus and Cupid
Artist not stated in the record · 1760-1790

Marriage spruce gum box in book form
Joseph Morin · February 27, 1903

Venus and Cupid
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1790

The Meeting
Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746

Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Alphabet game in book form
Artist not stated in the record · 1810

Masonic Symbols
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Box in book form with drawer, Album
Artist not stated in the record · 1903

Gentleman and Swimmer
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Basset Horn in F
Johann Gottlieb Freyer · ca. 1800

"Henry Clay" cigar box
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Sarcophagus of Wereshnefer
Artist not stated in the record · 380–300 BCE

"Marienbad"
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Léon Bonnat · 1869–70

"Old City Gates, St. Augustine, Fla."
Watson Company · ca. 1910

Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · ca. 1665–72

Moët & Chandon Champagne Hamper
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890
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. 53 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. 7466311 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-04 21:47 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.