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. 11 shown for “Mermaid's Glove” — 40 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-11 08:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mermaid's Glove
Artist not stated in the record
The Mermaid
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1877
Study for "The Mermaid Window," A.H. Barney Residence, New York, NY
Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · 1882
Sketch for "The Sorceress" and "Beneath the Sea," Illustrations for Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (LXXVIII, No. CCCCLXIII, December 1888, p. 56, 57)
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · ca. 1888
Study for "The Mermaid Window," A.H. Barney Residence, New York, NY
Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · 1882
Decoration of a Wall and Ceiling to be Executed in Stucco
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50
The Mermaid
Frederick Stuart Church, Grand Rapids, MI 1842-New York City 1924 · n.d.
Cartouche with Two Putti and a Mermaid
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1738
Design for a Boat-Shaped Vessel, possibly intended as a Festival Float
Giulio Romano, Italian, 1499–1546 · 1533
Design for an Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · 1630–60
![From "Etching" [Cassell & Co.], Illustration for The Book Buyer (III, No. 1, February 1886, p. 10), by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-57713_01-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
From "Etching" [Cassell & Co.], Illustration for The Book Buyer (III, No. 1, February 1886, p. 10)
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1885-1886
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2545 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-11 08:44 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.