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 “John Swift” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three)
John Swift · 1762–63
John Swift and William Freret
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843
Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three)
John Swift · 1762–63
Jolly Old Cock
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
Tea caddy with spoon (one of a set of three)
John Swift · 1762–63
Potamogeton gramineus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1893
Soup tureen
John Swift · 1758–59
Potamogeton gramineus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1893
Pitcher
John Swift · 1754
Celtis occidentalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 2005
Salver
John Swift · 1742/43
Viburnum lentago L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1950
Coffeepot
John Swift II · 1774–75
Celtis occidentalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 2004
Mace
John Swift II · 19th century, after 1766 original
Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 2004
Salver with arms of Judith Jodrell
John Swift · 1738/39
Gustavus Franklin Swift
Ralph Elmer Clarkson, 1861 - 1942 · 1904
Mrs. Thomas Pechell (Charlotte Clavering, died 1841)
John Hoppner · 1799
Dichanthelium boscii (Poir.) Gould & C.A. Clark
Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1948
Major Thomas Pechell (1753–1826)
John Hoppner · 1799
Vittaria graminifolia Kaulf.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1967
The Lovesick Maiden
Jan Steen · ca. 1660
Tortula ruralis (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1964
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. 63 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. 261649 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 16:17 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.