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. 15 shown for “Grand piano owned and used by Thelonious Monk” — 62 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 22:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Grand Piano
Carl Bechstein · ca. 1893
Grand piano owned and used by Thelonious Monk
Artist not stated in the record · 1962
The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77
Piano bench owned and used by Thelonious Monk
Artist not stated in the record · 1962
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Piano from Pilgrim Baptist Church used by Thomas Dorsey
The Cable Piano Company, American, founded 1880 · 1930s
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653
View of Toledo
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600
Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15
Madonna and Child
Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84
Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE
Grand Piano
Johann Schmidt · ca. 1790–95
Fortified Wall at Tivoli
Simon Denis · ca. 1786–1806
Settee
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · ca. 1885
Serena Pulitzer Lederer (1867–1943)
Gustav Klimt · 1899
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. 22 matched · 22 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. 1800668 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 22:28 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.