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. 23 shown for “Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904” — 49 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pitcher
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1881
Platter
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · ca. 1872
Spoon holder
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1878–81
Toast Rack
James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield, England, United Kingdom · ca. 1879
Toast rack
Christopher Dresser · 1878
Jug
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1880–82
Teapot
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1879
Dado
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1880
Vase with handles
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1882
Articulated Toast Rack
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1881–1883
Moon flask with crane and fish motifs
Christopher Dresser · 1870
Lincrusta-Walton
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1881–1882
Bottle
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1862
Vase
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1880–82
Jug
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1880
Jug
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · ca. 1872
Toast rack
Christopher Dresser · 1881
Fragment
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1873
Toast rack
Christopher Dresser · 1879
Japanese Cranes Over Waves
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · ca. 1870
Jug
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1872–75
Cruet Stand
Elkington & Co., British, 1861 – 1963 · ca. 1885
Kettle and stand
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · ca. 1885
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. 104 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 25 matched · 25 examined · 2 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 14:23 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.