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 “Bridgetown Glass Works” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 07:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787
Eragrostis brownii (Kunth) Nees
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1901
Flask
Bridgetown Glass Works · ca. 1836–50
Caulerpa cupressoides var. lycopodium Weber Bosse
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Nov 1989
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Caulerpa scalpelliformis
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Nov 1989
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock
James Cox · 1766
Vigna luteola (Jacq.) Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1924
Flintlock Target Pistol of Prince William Frederick, Second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834), with Case and Accessories
Wogdon & Barton · 1801–3
Corchorus tridens L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1890
Nécessaire (one of a pair)
John Barbot · ca. 1760
Euphorbia mesembryanthemifolia Jacq.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1924
Rapier of Prince-Elector Christian II of Saxony (1583–1611)
Israel Schuech · dated 1606
Sargassum platycarpum
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1966
Microscope
Claude-Siméon Passemant · ca. 1750
Dictyota cervicornis Kütz.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1966
Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75
Gracilaria ferox
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1966
Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72
Ochtodes secundiramea, ined.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1966
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853
Dictyopteris delicatula J.V.Lamouroux
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1966
Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1770
Dictyopteris justii J.V.Lamouroux
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1966
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. 2270 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. 594697 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 07:46 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.