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 “Bronze handle of a shallow basin” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations
Mounted Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79
Skillet
Artist not stated in the record
Bronze handle of a shallow basin
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE
Design for a Fountain
Artist not stated in the record · 1790
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Bird cage in the form of a circus wagon
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1780
Drinking Vessel with Banqueting Youths
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BC
Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783
Basin with painted decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Commode (Secrétaire à abattant)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783
Bronze Old Silla Dynasty Era Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century
Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75
Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785
Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63
Designs for Buffets
Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701 · ca.1680–1710
Handle
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century
Design for an Oil Lamp.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855
Basin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE
Rendering of the Grand Gallery of Honor, Palazzo Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Unknown · ca. 1890
Folding card table (table de jeu brisée en angle)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1755–65
Table fork used by Lavinia Whiteside Carrington
Artist not stated in the record · after 1867
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. 1113 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. 3887426 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-27 18:57 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.