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 “Carte-de-visite of Mr. and Mrs. Townsend” — 24 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:06 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.
Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Drop-leaf Pembroke Table
John Townsend · ca. 1795
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846
Vase on a column stand
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs, Versailles · after 1771–72, mounts ca. 1780
Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century
Mrs. Mayer and Daughter
Ammi Phillips · 1835–40
Gaja Lakshmi, Goddess of Fortune
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century
Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. second half of the 7th century
Mask of Vaikuntha Vishnu
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century
Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York
John La Farge · 1908–9
Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1778
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. 31158 matched · 24 examined · 9 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 2026-08-28 08:06 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.