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 “Heqanahkt Letter II” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Heqanahkt Letter II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.
V-Mail letter sheet
Artist not stated in the record · July 20, 1944
The Love Letter
Jean Honoré Fragonard · early 1770s
V-Mail letter sheet
Artist not stated in the record · July 20, 1944
Shield of Henry II of France (reigned 1547–59)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1555
V-Mail letter sheet
Artist not stated in the record · October 15, 1945
Display dish with Charles II (1630–1685) in a tree
Thomas Toft · ca. 1680
V-Mail letter sheet
Artist not stated in the record · October 22, 1945
Paolo Giordano II Orsini, Duke of Bracciano
Johann Jakob Kornmann (called Cormano) · ca. 1632
V-Mail Letter Sheet
Artist not stated in the record · 1945
Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat
Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century
Vmail facsimile letter
Artist not stated in the record · June 14, 1945
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866
V-Mail facsimile letter
Artist not stated in the record · February 10, 1945
Emperor Charles V (1500–1558) and his Son Philip II of Spain (1527–1598)
Leone Leoni · 1550
Vmail facsimile letter
Artist not stated in the record · August 5, 1945
Square salver
David Willaume II · 1730
Vmail facsimile letter
Artist not stated in the record · March 4, 1945
Interior View of Vladislav Hall at Prague Castle during the Annual Fair
Aegidius Sadeler II · 1607
V-Mail facsimile letter
Artist not stated in the record · February 16, 1944
Writing table (table à écrire)
Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1755
V-Mail letter sheet
Artist not stated in the record · September 24, 1945
Ostrakon with a Letter from Ananias to Priests
Artist not stated in the record · 600
V-Mail letter sheet
Artist not stated in the record · February 13, 1945
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. 1968 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 46001 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-27 02:51 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.