OpenTwo 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. 23 shown for “A River-Side Devon” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jug
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1872–75
A River-Side Devon
Artist not stated in the record · 1868
Carpet
Thomas Whitty · ca. 1765
Sanicula marilandica L.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1952
Miniature kettle with stand
Joseph Collier · 18th century
Cystopteris laurentiana (Weath.) Blasdell
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1952
Jug
John Eydes · ca. 1580
Lasiorhinus latifrons
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Mar 1973
.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Jug
C. Eston · ca. 1580–90
Gaillona rosea (Roth) A. Athanasiadis
Artist not stated in the record · 1876
Handkerchief
Emma Radford · second half 19th century
Fucus vesiculosus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1962
Pair of lappets
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Pterothamnion plumula (J. Ellis) Näg.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1962
Pair of cuffs
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Sterna paradisaea
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1947
Pair of cuffs
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Handkerchief
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Goat Island and Terrapin Tower, Niagara River, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1856
Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Matayba oppositifolia (A. Rich.) Britton
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 2001
Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Green River, Wyoming
Thomas Moran, American, b. Britain, 1837–1926 · 1871
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. 839 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. 2740 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 08:08 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.