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. 22 shown for “Hand mirror” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:59 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mirror
Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710
Female Monkey with hand mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–90
Architectural woodwork and paneling
George A. Schastey & Co. · 1881–82
Cellulose nitrate hand mirror from dresser set owned by Lena Horne
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th Century
Hand mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 1874–75
Hand Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · Second half 19th century
Hand mirror
André Aucoc · 1887–1911
Hand Mirror with Scenes from the Story of Medea
Artist not stated in the record · 1561
Hand mirror
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Hand mirror from Mae's Millinery Shop
Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994
Mirror Case
Artist not stated in the record · 1350–75
Silver hand mirror owned by members of the Ellis family
Unidentified · late 19th-early 20th century
Hand with Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century
Girl and Peonies (The Hand Mirror)
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1906
A Courtesan Looking at Her Reflection in a Hand Mirror
Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英 · ca. 1787
Frieze
S.A. Maxwell & Co. · 1905–1915
Mirror clock
Master CR · ca. 1565–70
Sidewall
Carey Bros. W.P. Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded 1882 · 1905–1915
Design for a Hand Mirror or Fan Handle
Anonymous, Italian, 18th century · ca. 1650–1700
Vénus ou La Coquetterie
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1782
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE
Center table
Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia · ca. 1780–85
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. 518 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 31833 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 09:59 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.