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 Westerners and Landscapes” — 24 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:37 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 Westerners and Landscapes
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th–early 19th century

Terracotta pyxis (box)
Penthesilea Painter · ca. 465–460 BCE

Panel from a Rectangular Box
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–early 11th century

Landscapes with the Chinese Literati Su Shi and Tao Qian
Nagasawa Rosetsu · 1795–99

Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881

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

Mounted dish with figures in a landscape from Burghley House, Lincolnshire
Artist not stated in the record · porcelain 1573– ca. 1585, mounts ca. 1585

Writing Box
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Inscribed Pen Box
Artist not stated in the record · made in early–late 14th century; altered shortly before mid-15th century

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

Virgin and Child
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s

Sutra Box (Kyōbako) with Sun and Clouds
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–early 15th 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. 757 matched · 24 examined · 8 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 05:37 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.