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. 24 shown for “Design for a Pitcher” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:39 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
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1430
Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846
Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830
Pitcher
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1881
Design for a Pitcher and Basin
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825
Pitcher
Karl L. H. Müller · 1875
Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600
Pitcher
Charles Cartlidge and Company · 1848–56
Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910
Pitcher
Willets Manufacturing Company · 1887–93
Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910
Pitcher
Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1880–89
Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1520–50
Pitcher
Charles Cartlidge and Company · 1848–56
Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1701–50
Pitcher
Ball, Black & Co. · ca. 1872
Design for a Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1701–1750
Pitcher
Charles Cartlidge and Company · ca. 1848–56
Design for a Milk Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1910
Pitcher
Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1877–89
Burette
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748
Pitcher
Chelsea Keramic Art Works · ca. 1875–89
Pot à l'eau
Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748
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. 22992 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. 2094176 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 20:39 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.