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 “Master GG” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Smallsword with Scabbard
Master GG · hallmarked 1773–74
Henri Matisse
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966 · May 13, 1913
Mary of Burgundy
Master H.A. or A.H. · 1528
Zizania palustris L.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 2007
Eight Kinds of Jin and Tang Writings in Small Standard Script
Various artists · 17th century (?)
Zizania palustris L.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 2007
Warwick Castle
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1748
Utricularia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 1981
Saint Sebastian
Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · 1566
Benjamin Franklin Butler
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-62
Garden of the Inept Administrator
Wen Zhengming · 1551
Bombus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1930 to 12 Aug 1930
Landscapes after historical painters
Yun Xiang · datable to 1638 or 1650
Bombus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1930 to 12 Aug 1930
Landscapes and trees
Gong Xian · ca. 1679
Carex leptonervia (Fernald) Fernald
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1982
Square Piano
Johannes Zumpe · 1767
Hibbertia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 1981
Virgin and Child
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525
Cissus gossypiifolia Standl.
Artist not stated in the record · 2022
Eight views of the Yellow Mountains
Zheng Min · 1681
Alto saxophone owned and played by Charlie Parker
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1947
Harpsichord
Jacob Kirkman · 1781
Stenella frontalis (Cuvier, 1829)
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Dec 1978
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. 25 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. 4498 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-26 18:15 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.