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 “Group E” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 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.
Terracotta amphora (jar)
Group E · ca. 540 BCE
Trichilia minutiflora Standl.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1966
Terracotta amphora (jar)
Group E · ca. 550 BCE
Tournefortia petiolaris DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1969
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Group E · ca. 540 BCE
Pemphis acidula J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1995
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846
Piper neesianum C. DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Apr 1968
Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora (jar)
Leagros Group · ca. 510 BCE
Palinurellus wieneckii
Artist not stated in the record
The Demidoff Table
Lorenzo Bartolini · 1845
Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Richt.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Dec 1959
Terracotta onos (leg guard used in carding wool)
Golonos Group · ca. 510–500 BCE
Leersia ligularis var. breviligularis
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Oct 1959
Terracotta thymiaterion (incense burner)
Stuttgart Group · ca. 325–300 BCE
Acidoton microphyllus Urb.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Oct 1928
African King from an Adoration Group
Artist not stated in the record · before 1489
Pouteria amygdalina (Standl.) Baehni
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jan 1962
European King from an Adoration Group
Artist not stated in the record · before 1489
Anemia adiantifolia (L.) Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Feb 1960
Asian King from an Adoration Group
Artist not stated in the record · before 1489
Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.) Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Mar 1950
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Group R · ca. 420–400 BCE
Campyloneurum vulpinum (Lindm.) Ching
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Nov 1926
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. 2714 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 1225279 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 20:17 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.