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 “Joseph Belcher Sr.” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Porringer
Joseph Belcher Sr. · 1769–87
Hellenia speciosa (J. Koenig) S.R. Dutta
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Oct 1945
Sauceboat
Joseph Richardson Sr. · 1750–55
Joseph Ennalls Muse
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1804
Sauceboat
Joseph Richardson Sr. · 1750–55
Joseph Wellington Byrns
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1935
Dish
Joseph Leddel Sr. · 1720–50
Buccinum belcheri
Artist not stated in the record
Punch Bowl
Joseph Richardson Sr. · ca. 1755
Colpomenia tuberculata
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1955
Basin
Joseph Leddel Sr. · 1712–54
Colpomenia tuberculata
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1955
Nécessaire
Joseph Martineau, Sr. · mid-18th century
Senecio brassii Belcher
Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 2000
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835
Herissantia crispa (L.) Brizicky
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1969 or 4 Nov 1969
Covered Box
Joseph Leddel Sr. · 1712–54
Senecio brassii Belcher
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 1961
Buckle (a); Avon Box (b)
Joseph Richardson Sr. · ca. 1750
Senecio brassii Belcher
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1961
Clasp
Joseph Richardson Sr. · ca. 1750
Senecio brassii Belcher
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 1964
Teapot
Joseph Richardson Sr. · ca. 1740
Senecio brassii Belcher
Artist not stated in the record · 6 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. 174 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. 93493 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 03:27 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.