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. 14 shown for “Negro Makers of History” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Terracotta vase in the form of a Black African youth's head
Negro Boy Group · 4th century BCE
Negro Makers of History
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
Armet
Missaglia workshop · ca. 1460
Negro Makers of History
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
Costume Armor in the Classical Style
Hallé · ca. 1788–90
Celestial globe with clockwork
Gerhard Emmoser · 1579
Paper knife
Castellani · ca. 1863
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE
Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881
Tureen with cover and liner
Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers · 1775–76
Mantel clock with alarm
Franz Xavier Gegenreiner · case ca. 1710, movement ca. 1760–70
Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98
Watch case
George Harrison · probably ca. 1770
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52
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. 678 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2878825 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 09:32 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.