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. 20 shown for “Collar of Mail” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shirt of Mail and Plate
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century
French Republic Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1889
Armor of Mail and Plate
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–first half of the 19th century
Chicago, Illinois Medallion Owney Tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1893
Collar of Mail
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Photograph of Owney the dog
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1895
Collar of Mail
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Egg separators for egg mailing crate
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1950
Collar of Mail
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Shirt of Mail
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Shirt of Mail and Plate
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century
Collar of Mail
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Shirt of Mail and Plate of Al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Din Qaitbay (ca. 1416/18–1496), 18th Burji Mamluk Sultan of Egypt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1468–96
Three-dozen egg crate
Artist not stated in the record · December 21, 1954
Collar of Mail
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Photograph of Owney the dog
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1895
Shirt of Mail and Plate of Emperor Shah Jahan (reigned 1624–58)
Artist not stated in the record · dated A.H. 1042/1632–33 CE
Photograph of Owney the dog
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1895
Shirt of Mail and Plate
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century
Photograph of Owney the dog
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1895
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. 3227 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. 2858984 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-28 11:20 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.