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 “M. L. Holt and L. C. Abbott's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model” — 57 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
M. L. Holt and L. C. Abbott's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1870
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Herbert L. Andrews' 1868 School Desk Patent Model Improvement
Artist not stated in the record · 1868
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89
John L. Riter's 1873 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1873
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Seth L. Wilkinson's 1860 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1860
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
William A. Slaymaker's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1870
The Brioche
Edouard Manet · 1870
Eldridge J. Smith's 1872 School Desk and Seat Patent Model fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1872
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635
A. J. Hull's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1870
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
Milan C. Stebbin and Edwin J. Piper's 1873 School Desk Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1873
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866
Albert E. Roberts's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1870
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
Henry R. Fry's 1875 School Seat Standard Support Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1875
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874
Elijah Wilson's 1870 School Desk and Seat Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1870
View of Toledo
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600
Frank T. June's 1878 School Desk Connecting Improvement Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1878
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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 1 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. 4101699 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 01:51 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.