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 “Dominique Daguerre” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Carlton House pedestal (one of a pair)
Dominique Daguerre · ca. 1794
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1849
Commode (commode à vantaux) (part of a set)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790
Monument at the Tomb of Louis Daguerre
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860 (after 1853 daguerreotype)
Combination table
Martin Carlin · ca. 1775
Chateau of Daguerre at Bry-Sur-Marne
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1860 (after 1853 daguerreotype)
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Xylocopa (Nanoxylocopa) ciliata
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1957 to 31 Aug 1957
Commode (commode à vantaux)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1785
Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Feb 1962 to 28 Feb 1962
Combined work, writing, and reading table and music stand
Martin Carlin · ca. 1775–80
Xylocopa (Nanoxylocopa) ciliata
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1957 to 31 Aug 1957
Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790
Bombus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1959
Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790
Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) augusti
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1963
Desk (bonheur du jour)
Claude-Charles Saunier · ca. 1765–75
Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) augusti
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1962
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
Unknown · ca. 1844
Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Mar 1957 to 31 Mar 1957
Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1768
Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) augusti
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1957
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. 24 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. 824 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-02 19:54 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.