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 “Bed valances and side curtains” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 09:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bed valances and side curtains
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700
Curtain loop ornament or valance mount
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830–50
Valances (set of three)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600
Lit à l’Antique
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779-90
Pair of side curtains for a bed
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Lit à la Turque
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century
Valance
Artist not stated in the record · 1580–1610
Lit à la Turque
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century
Enbroidered bed curtain
Sarah Noyes Chester · ca. 1745
Bedcover
Artist not stated in the record · 1720–40
Pair of bed curtains
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Lit à la Chinoise
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779-90
The Annunciation
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490
Title Page
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1650–80
Standing shelf (one of a pair)
William Linnell · ca. 1753–54
Lit à la Chinoise
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779-90
Embroidered bed hangings
Ruth Culver Coleman · ca. 1760–75
Lit à la Romaine
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century
The Annunciation
Gerard David · 1506
Interior Alcove
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · ca. 1651
Valance, blue-resist textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725–75
Lit a dome en Chaire a precher a quatre colonnes vû par le pied
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · late 18th century
Valance, blue-resist textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725–75
Lit a la Polonnaise, a Tombeau
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1779–90
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. 35 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1544969 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-29 09:32 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.