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. 12 shown for “John Ray and James Montague” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Saber and Scabbard Presented to Lieutenant Colonel Edward Pakenham
John Ray and James Montague · hallmarked for 1802–03
Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s
Smallsword Hilt and Scabbard Mounts
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98
The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
William Hogarth · 1729
Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard of Captain W. E. Cracraft
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Gerard David · ca. 1510
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658
Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate
Gerard David · ca. 1510
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
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. 98 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:23 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.