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. 12 shown for “Tiered Box with Reeds and Crane” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Tiered Box with Reeds and Crane
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Bassoon
Dominique Antony Porthaux · 1790–1800

East Wall, South Side of Nakht's Offering Chapel
Norman de Garis Davies · 1908–1910; original ca. 1410–1370 BCE

Box decorated with auspicious symbols
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Tiered box
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Sutra Box (Kyōbako) with Sun and Clouds
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–early 15th century

Tibia
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1–500

Pen Box (Qalamdan) with Inscriptions
Hasan Ramadan Shahi · early 16th century

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

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with “Dream in Naniwa” Design
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Stacked Food Box (Jūbako) with Taro Plants and Chrysanthemums
Shibata Zeshin · mid-19th century

Basset Horn in F
Johann Gottlieb Freyer · ca. 1800
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. 135 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 05:35 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.