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. 14 shown for “John Phillips” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 09:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[The Great Wave, Sète], by Gustave Le Gray](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP223650.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[The Great Wave, Sète]
Gustave Le Gray · 1857
2c John Phillip Sousa plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · March 28, 1940
The Return from the Continent, or the Family Puzzled
John Phillips · 1835
Chasmanthium laxum (L.) H.O. Yates
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 2013
Armchair
John and Joseph W. Meeks · ca. 1850
Plate (from the "Vues Diverses" service)
Sèvres Manufactory · 1814
Saint John
Antonio Susini · 1596
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels
François Boucher · 1765
The Sackville Children
John Hoppner · 1796
Side Chair
Alexander Jackson Davis · ca. 1848
Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Hester Jane Ogle, 1775/76–1817) and Her Son (Charles Brinsley Sheridan, 1796–1843)
John Hoppner
The Present State of Great Britain
James Phillips · 1779
![[Rocky Hillside], by Victor Prevost](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP109623.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Rocky Hillside]
Victor Prevost · 1850s
Study for "The Agony in the Garden"
Robert Walter Weir
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. 485 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 269341 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 09:42 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.