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. 16 shown for “Empress Yang Meizi” — 44 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quatrain on yellow roses
Empress Yang Meizi · early 13th century
Empress Eugenie
Passerat Fils & Cie, French · mid- 19th century
Quatrain on spring’s radiance
Empress Yang Meizi · early 13th century
Portrait of the Empress Eugenie
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855
Buddha Maitreya (Mile)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 486 (10th year of Taihe reign)
Empress Eugénie
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900
Emperor Xiaowen and his entourage worshipping the Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 522–23
Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, Queen of Diamonds from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards
B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France · 1858
Eugénie, Empress of France, Queen of Clubs from Set of "Jeu Imperial–Second Empire–Napoleon III" Playing Cards
B.P. Grimaud, Paris, France · 1858
Eugenie Empress of the French in Her Bridal Costume
E. C. Kellogg, born Tolland, CT 1811-died Hartford, CT 1881
Victoria Empress of India 1877
Shobey Shiino, Japanese, 1839–1900 · 1877
Phalaenopsis Orchidom Empress Liz
Artist not stated in the record
Pot-à-Oille (Design for a Tureen with Handle for the Empress Josephine), plate 46, in Recueil de decorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)
Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · 1812
Phalaenopsis Orchidom Empress Liz
Artist not stated in the record
Interior of the Duke's Theater in Dorset Gardens, London, a Scene from Elkannah Settle's "The Empress of Morocco"
Richard Sawyer · 1809
× Rhyncholaeliocattleya Empress × Cattleya Tower
Artist not stated in the record
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4195 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-26 20:21 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.