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. 24 shown for “A. Kimbel and Sons” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Étagère
A. Kimbel and Sons · ca. 1885–90
Mustela nigripes
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1916
Side Chair
Kimbel and Cabus · ca. 1875
armchair
Kimbel & Cabus, New York, New York, USA, active 1863–1882 · ca. 1870–73
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787
Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth. & Hook. f.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1973
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Spiraea sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1973
Ewer from Burghley House, Lincolnshire
Artist not stated in the record · Chinese porcelain 1573– ca. 1585, British mounts ca. 1585
Madia glomerata Hook.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1973
Ugolino and His Sons
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1865–67
Centaurium sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1973
Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century
Hypericum anagalloides Cham. & Schltdl.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1973
Saber
Artist not stated in the record · blade, 18th–19th century; guard and decoration on blade, 19th century; grip, 18th century
Rhinanthus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1973
Pier table
Joseph B. Barry and Son · 1810–15
Eleocharis ovata (Roth) Roem. & Schult.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1973
Armor
Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1515 and later
Navarretia squarrosa (Eschsch.) Hook. & Arn.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1973
Writing and eating table
Martin Carlin · ca. 1780
Cabinet card of Norman Tuck and his son Alric by Ball & Sons
Artist not stated in the record · 1898-1899
Armor for Man and Horse
Artist not stated in the record · comprehensively ca. 1450–1550
Cabinet card of an unidentified child in a white dress by Ball & Sons
Artist not stated in the record · 1897-1902
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. 12411 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2777720 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-05 05:03 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.