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. 12 shown for “Box for Writing Implements with Design of Kimono on Rack and Incense Burner” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Box for Writing Implements with Design of Kimono on Rack and Incense Burner
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Incense Burner of Amir Saif al-Dunya wa’l-Din ibn Muhammad al-Mawardi
Ja`far ibn Muhammad ibn `Ali · dated 577 AH/1181–82 CE
Writing Box (Suzuribako) with “Dream in Naniwa” Design
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Desk (bonheur du jour)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1770
China table
Thomas Chippendale · ca. 1755
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Leaf of a Writing Tablet
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century
Nécessaire
Joseph Martineau, Sr. · mid-18th century
Nécessaire with watch
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50
Writing Box with Lattice and Flower Design
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century
Writing box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750 –1760
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. 45 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 23:30 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.