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 “British or Irish Painter” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
William Paulet Carey (1759–1839)
British or Irish Painter
Irish Cottage
Josephine Joy, born North River Mills, WV 1869-died Peoria, IL 1948 · ca. 1935-1938
Candelabrum (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785
Chas. Erin Verner in Fred G. Maeder's great comedy drama, "Shamus O'Brien/ The Bold Boy of Glingall"
Enquirer Show Print · n.d.
Set of five teaspoons
John Ladyman · 1711/12
Shiffler Company Cape
unknown · ca 1846-1870
Disk from a Reel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800 BCE
Speech of Robert Emmet, Esq.
Smith, William · n.d.
American Barque "Jane Tudor," Conway Bay
David Johnson · ca. 1855
Tillandsia fendleri Griseb. var. fendleri
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jan 1967
Chandelier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1787
Irish Gentleman
John Hoppner, English, born London, England 1758-died London, England 1810 · n.d.
The Journey of the Magi
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35
Sconces
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20
Sconce
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20
Sconce
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20
Chandelier
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–20
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. 713 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 316011 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 03:36 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.