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. 17 shown for “Corner cupboard from a House in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 00:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Corner cupboard from a House in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1761
Holosteum umbellatum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1901
Flintlock Longrifle
Jacob Kuntz · ca. 1810–20
Euphorbia vermiculata Raf.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1892
Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE
Viola sagittata Aiton
Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1901
Woodwork of a Room from the Colden House, Coldenham, New York
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1767
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1901
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778
Antennaria calophylla Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1901
Paneling from the parlor of Marmion, King George County, Virginia
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1756
Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s
Sampler
Mary Ann Stauffer · 1830
The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467
Room from the Powel House, Philadelphia
Artist not stated in the record · 1765–66, remodeled 1769–71
Wheat Fields
Jacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670
Parlor from the William C. Williams House
Theophilus Nash · 1810–11
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. 138 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 7484487 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 00:13 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.