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 for a Water Pipe (huqqa) with Floral Medallions” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Base for a Water Pipe (huqqa) with Floral Medallions
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Textile
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century
Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Poetry and Flowers
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Designs for Two Cups
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1827–35
Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–1050
Designs for Fountains
Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761
Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784
Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–90
Tea or hot water urn
John McMullin · 1799
Sidewall and border
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825
Rothschild lamp
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · ca. 1510–20
Bedcover
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683
Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683
Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683
Aquarium, octagonal with fountain
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century
Cup and Saucer
Minton Ceramics Manufactory, English, established 1796 · ca. 1800
Water Pipe Base
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 141 matched · 24 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. 2212777 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-03 01:30 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.