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. 12 shown for “Amphitecna isthmica (A.H. Gentry) A.H. Gentry” — 20 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:54 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.
A Huntsman and a Peasant Woman by the Isar River with a View of Munich
Wilhelm von Kobell · 1823
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories
Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818
Forsyth Patent Second Model Sliding Primer Over-and-Under Pistol with Case and Accessories
Alexander John Forsyth · ca. 1824
Flintlock Repeating Pistol with Lorenzoni Action, Bearing the Crests of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758–1805), with Case and Accessories
Harvey Walklate Mortimer · ca. 1798–99
Flowering Plum and Rock
Hu Yuan · dated 1876
Falstaff at Justice Shallow's Mustering His Recruits (Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act 3, Scene 2)
William Nelson Gardiner · June 1, 1792
Fluellen Making Pistol Eat the Leek (Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 5, Scene 1)
Robert Mitchell Meadows · August 1, 1795
Falstaff at Herne's Oak (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 5)
Michele Beneditti · May 30, 1793
Rosalind, Celia & Touchstone (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 2)
John Chapman · June 1, 1792
Collier Second Model Five-Shot Flintlock Revolver
Elisha Haydon Collier · ca. 1820
Merrymakers at Shrovetide
Frans Hals · ca. 1616–17
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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 4 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 2026-09-03 11:54 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.