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 “Anonymous, 16th century” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hunters in a Landscape
Anonymous, 16th century · ca. 1575–95
Embroidery
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
The Dance of Death
Anonymous, German, 16th century · 16th century
Strong box and key
Artist not stated in the record · probably 16th century
Samson and the Lion, from "The Story of Samson"
Anonymous, French, 16th century · ca. 1560–80
Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century
Entrance of the Cardinal and Archduke Albert to Brussels in 1596
Anonymous, 16th century · after 1596
Cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century
Hercules with his Club and Lion Skin
Anonymous, 16th century · 1548
Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century
Copy of Bear Hunt
Anonymous, 16th century · mid 16th century
Stove tile
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century
Female Warrior crushing a Satyr
Anonymous, 16th century · 16th century
Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century
Copy of Luther as an Augustinian Friar, Half Length
Anonymous, German, 16th century · 1520
Border
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Fantastical Masked Masculine Heads
Anonymous, 16th century
Altar frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century
Two Fantastical Masked Masculine Heads
Anonymous, 16th century
Altar frontal
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Portrait of a Man (Louis de Lorraine?, 1555–1588)
Anonymous, French, 16th century
Table cover
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century
Abduction of Helen
Anonymous, French, 16th century
Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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. 48864 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 38894 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-27 03:07 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.