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 man seated on a ball” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 06:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bronze man seated on a ball
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 725–700 BCE
Cabinet card of an unidentified seated man with a beard by Ball & Sons
Artist not stated in the record · 1897-1902
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Cabinet card of four unidentified men posing with bottles of beer by Ball & Sons
Artist not stated in the record · 1897-1902
Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · 1763–71
Cabinet card of two unidentified newlywed couples by Ball & Sons
Artist not stated in the record · 1898
Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75
Cabinet card of Charles, Jake, and Tom Young photographed by J.P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1890
Wall clock (pendule en cartel)
Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45
Cabinet card of an unidentified man and woman by J. P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900
Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70
Carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860
Commode from Croome Court, Worcestershire
Peter Langlois · 1764
Cabinet card of three unidentified girls by Ball & Sons
Artist not stated in the record · 1898
Writing table (bureau plat)
Gilles Joubert · 1759
Armchair
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–90
Seated ballplayer
Ameca-Etzatlán artists · 200 BCE–300 CE
Cabinet card of three unidentified children seated on caned sofa by Ball & Sons
Artist not stated in the record · 1900
Bronze man and centaur
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750 BCE
Inkwell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735
The Broncho Buster
Frederic Remington · 1895, revised 1909, cast by November 1910
William Frederick Hoppe
Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · 1940
Small oval writing table (one of a pair)
Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix · ca. 1775
Cabinet card of an unidentified man photographed by Ball & Sons
Artist not stated in the record · 1897-1902
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. 1384 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. 2484864 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-29 06:37 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.