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 “Bigelow Carpet Company, American” — 58 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pitcher
New England Glass Company · 1817–40
Carpet fragment
Bigelow Carpet Company, American · 1849–1900
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (serial no. 63306)
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853
Carpet fragment
Bigelow Carpet Company, American · 1849–1900
Flask
Westford Glass Company · 1850–60
Invention for Improvement in Looms for Weaving Piled Fabrics
Artist not stated in the record · 1851
Indo-Persian carpet with medallions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680
1838 Bigelow's Patent Model of a Loom
Artist not stated in the record · 1838-01-06
Goblet
Gorham Manufacturing Company · ca. 1865
Campion
Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1875–1941 · late 19th century
Sampler
Laura Hyde · 1800
E. B. Bigelow, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Allen & Ginter · 1888
Kitty in Clover
Currier & Ives · 1872
Earflare with ritual procession
Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE
The Visit
Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746
Earflare with ritual procession
Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 1020110 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 00:33 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.