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. 21 shown for “Document box with brass fitting” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations
Desk
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories
James Purdey the Elder · 1831
Money box used by Bishop Richard Allen
Unidentified · early 19th century
Miniature secretary incorporating a watch
James Cox · ca. 1766–72
whale oil lamp
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Game table
David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83
whale oil lamp
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories
Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818
Clock
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890
Six-Barreled Pepperbox Disk Primer Pistol with Case and Accessories
Joseph Rock Cooper · ca. 1840–1850
Lantern
Artist not stated in the record · 1860
Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75
chandelier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850
Document box with brass fitting
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850
Bobbin and carriage
A .G. Jennings & Sons, American · ca. 1884
Cased Pair of Percussion Pistols with Accessories
Louis-Julien Gastinne-Renette · dated 1856
Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580
Repeating watch
Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770
Nécessaire with watch
Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50
Settee
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · 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. 88 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. 385838 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 22:43 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.