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. 17 shown for “Bené Millinery, American, founded 1979” — 45 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saint Benedict
Segna di Buonaventura · 1320s
Red straw skullcap with matching ruffle flower
Vanilla Beane, American, 1919 - 2022 · 1980s
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David · ca. 1512–15
Red cloche with netting and feathers
Bené Millinery, American, founded 1979 · 1950s
Madonna and Child
Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300
Two tone straw hat with star underbrim
Bené Millinery, American, founded 1979 · 1970s
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Blue derby hat with feathers and flowers
Vanilla Beane, American, 1919 - 2022 · 1980s
The Nativity
Gerard David · early 1480s
Black cloche hat with veil feather and rhinestones
Vanilla Beane, American, 1919 - 2022 · 1960s
Cosmetic powder puff from Mae's Millinery Shop
Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994
Paper card with black metal snaps from Mae's Millinery Shop
Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994
Black plastic buckle from Mae's Millinery Shop
Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994
Black makeup pencil from Mae's Millinery Shop
Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994
Airline freight tag from Mae's Millinery Shop
Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994
AQ CARDUI BENED
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Purple hat with puckered fabric and rhinestones
Mertize, American, founded 1951 · 1960s
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1065416 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-06 06:36 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.