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 “Base Post Office chest badge, number 250” — 57 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Paris
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524
Base Post Office chest badge, number 250
Artist not stated in the record · 1950s
Censer with seated king
Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE
Roundsman chest badge
Artist not stated in the record · early 1880s
Sulking
Edgar Degas · ca. 1870
Service Badge
C. D. Reese Company, Inc. · early 1880s
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany
Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611
Custodial chest badge, number 2419
Artist not stated in the record · Date of issue: unknown
Staff with Saint Anthony of Padua
Kongo artist · 19th century
Sea post clerk chest badge, number 81
Artist not stated in the record · 1891-1940
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778
Sea Post clerk chest badge, number 88
Artist not stated in the record · 1891-1940
Crozier Head with Crucifixion, Virgin and Child, and Saint Denis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350
Custodial employee chest badge, number 13
Artist not stated in the record · 1921
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Sea post clerk chest badge, number 72
Artist not stated in the record · 1891-1940
Roses
Vincent van Gogh · 1890
Custodial employee chest badge
Artist not stated in the record · unknown
The Annunciation
Gerard David · 1506
Administrative employee chest badge, number 9
Artist not stated in the record · 1960s
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449
Administrative employee chest badge, number 3655
N. C. Walter and Sons · early 1900s
Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874
Custodial employee chest badge
Artist not stated in the record · 1921
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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 1 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. 7020445 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 15:58 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.