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 “Elements” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Microscope
Claude-Siméon Passemant · ca. 1750
chatelaine
G. Parvis · late 19th century
Jewelry Elements
Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–16th century
Tassel
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Elements
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century
Long-tailed Macaque
Artist not stated in the record
Elements
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century
Window shade
Artist not stated in the record · 1870–1900
No. 8
Gebrüder Thonet, Austrian, founded 1853 · mid-19th century
Elements of an Italian Light-Cavalry Armor alla Tedesca (in the German Fashion)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1882
Woodwork of a Room from the Colden House, Coldenham, New York
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1767
Lettre sur les Eléments de la gravure á l'Eauforte (Letter on the elements of etching), Page 5
Artist not stated in the record · 1860-1864
Seasons and Elements (Summer) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683
Seasons and Elements (Fire) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683
Seasons and Elements (Spring) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683
Seasons and Elements (Air) (set of four)
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1683
Jewelry Elements
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1805 B.C.
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. 5821 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 7152 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 00:25 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.