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 “Lovers Returning to a Palace” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lovers Returning to a Palace
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Writing a poem on a crimson leaf
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Medal cabinet
William Vile · 1760–61
The Return of Ulysses to Ithaca, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1802–05
A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500
A forlorn lover, fragment from a Rasamanjari
Attributed to the workshop of Golu, son of Devidasa · ca. 1710-ca. 1715
Terracotta plaque
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 460–450 BCE
Popocatepetl, Spirited Morning-- Mexico
Marsden Hartley, born Lewiston, ME 1877-died Ellsworth, ME 1943 · 1932
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787
Textile
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Lover’s Eye Watch Fob
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820
Two lovers in a pavilion, from an Amarushataka (Hundred poems of Amaru), or an unidentified erotic series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1680
A Dance in the Country
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755
"Mermaid and Her Lover" Engine Panel Painting
Woodside, John Archibald · ca 1840
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440
Two Lovers in a Landscape
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1800-1830
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
The Hug (or) Not Lovers
Vance, Fred T. · 1875
Emperor Xuanzong's flight to Shu
Unidentified artist · mid-12th century
Stigmaphyllon emarginatum (Cav.) A. Juss.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Sep 1907
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s
Jalandhara Ragaputra, from a Ragamala series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740-1750
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. 337 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. 2245958 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-01 15:55 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.