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 “Initial Style artist(s)” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Double-eagle pendant
Initial Style artist(s) · 1–500 CE
Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials G. D.
Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · ca. 1805
Figure pendant
International or Initial Style artist(s) · 400–900 CE
Woman's cap
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Double-chambered bottle
Wari artist(s) · 800–900 CE
Owen-style lamppost mailbox
Artist not stated in the record · 1911
Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–5th century
Border
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century
Stylized Figure Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–10th century
Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials H. D. C.
Unidentified · ca. 1795
Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 100–500 CE
Flounce
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century
Seahorse pendant
International Style artist(s) · 400–900 CE
The Red Room, Schloss Fischbach
Friedrich Wilhelm Klose, German, 1804 – after 1863 · ca. 1846
Funerary mask
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE
50c Joseph Clay Styles Blackburn plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · October 25, 1930
Coffeepot
Robert Peaston · 1761–62
Large Salon with Organ
Unknown, English · 1830
Frog pendant
Chiriquí artist(s) · 700–1550 CE
Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897
Standing figure
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–600 CE
Chinese Figures
Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763 · 1774–1811
Drum
Nasca artist(s) · 100–400 CE
Byzantine-Style Mosaic Necklace with Christ and Twelve Apostles
Unidentified (Murano, Venice, Italy) · 1870s-1910s
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. 8531 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 906344 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 20:53 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.