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 “Elevation of a Saltcellar” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saltcellar
Artist not stated in the record · mid-13th century
Elevation of a Saltcellar
Artist not stated in the record · 1530–60
Saltcellar
Artist not stated in the record · 1736–95
Design for a Saltcellar
Giulio Romano, Italian, 1499–1546 · 1524–46
Saltcellar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1540s–70s or 19th century
Design for a Saltcellar
Giulio Romano, Italian, 1499–1546 · 1524–46
Lidded saltcellar
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · ca. 1490–1530
Saltcellar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760
Saltcellar with Portuguese Figures
"Master of the Heraldic Ship" · ca. 1525–1600
Four Trencher Salts
James Rood, English, active 1710 – 1718 · 1722
Saltcellar
Jersey Glass Company of George Dummer · 1825–50
Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon
Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612 · late 16th century
Saltcellar (one of a pair)
Pierre Reymond · ca. 1540–45
Salt Cellar
Artist not stated in the record · 1811
Saltcellar
Artist not stated in the record · 1855–65
Salt cellar
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Saltcellar
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century, after 16th century original
SALIERES
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805
Saltcellar
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–35
SALIERES
Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805
Saltcellar
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40
Bracket and Rosette Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788
Saltcellar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835
Bracket and Rosette Designs
Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788
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. 1184 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. 4550981 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-04 07:55 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.