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. 23 shown for “Fan from the Cotton Club” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dancer with a Fan
Edgar Degas · ca. 1880
Fan from the Cotton Club
Artist not stated in the record · 1923-1935
Fan Mount: Dancers
Edgar Degas · 1879
Red, yellow, blue, and white Madras headdress
DODY, Guadeloupean, founded 1973 · 2015
Border Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 450–175 BCE
Pleated cockade fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1870–90
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Folding fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–1900
Chuspa (coca bag)
Moche artist(s) · 650-850 CE
Bottle tag from the Cotton Club
Artist not stated in the record · 1923-1933
Fan Mount: The Ballet
Edgar Degas · 1879
Program from the Cotton Club
Artist not stated in the record · 1938
Dancer with a Fan
Edgar Degas · ca. 1890–95
Wooden clapper from the Cotton Club promoting Ethel Waters
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1933
Coat (Choga)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century or earlier
Pleated fan
A. Lauronce · ca. 1875
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
Scrap quilt made by Elizabeth Salter Smith
Elizabeth Anne Salter Smith, American, 1850 - 1937 · 1870-1900
Banner (Nobori)
Artist not stated in the record · 1827
San Antonio, Texas Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · April 4, 1892
Vase Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century
Pleated fan
Alouïse van de Voord · 1885–90
Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874
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. 80 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 1376784 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 20:17 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.