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. 18 shown for “Courting flute (siyotanka)” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 19:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Courting flute (siyotanka)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1900
Musicians Playing Trumpets and Flutes
Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920
Flute
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century
View of Court Room, Federal Building, Cleveland, OH
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · ca. 1917
Mbita-Ni-Tanga
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
Rustic Dance
Unidentified (French) · 18th-19th century
Tenor Recorder
Bassano · ca. 1600
Homage to a Hero
Firmin Perlin · 1772
Ryūteki
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Two Young Men
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835 or 1836
Ryuteki (龍笛 "dragon flute")
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Krishna fluting, folio from a Dasavatar series
Attributed to the Master of the Court of Mankot (active early 18th century) · ca. 1730
Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1789
Flute (Spitzglas)
Artist not stated in the record · 1672–89
The Music Lesson
John George Brown · 1870
The Three Ages of Humans
Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero) · ca. 1515
Chalice à soleil
Artist not stated in the record · 1532–33
Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210
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. 113 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 6684 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 19:50 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.