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. 16 shown for “I. S., Sheffield” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846
Salver
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1880
Twelve knives
I. S., Sheffield · late 18th century
Bouquet holder, incised arches
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1869
Double-chambered bottle
Wari artist(s) · 800–900 CE
Baccharis neglecta Britton
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Nov 1948
Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century
Captain Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625 · c.1603 - c.1621
Twelve forks
I. H., Sheffield · late 18th century
Vase base
James Dixon & Sons · ca. 1840–60
Snuffers tray
D. & G. Holy · ca. 1820
Teapot
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1879
David and Goliath
Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast
King Clothar I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250
King Clovis I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250
Cowrie shell
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
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. 12852 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 974336 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 05:16 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.