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 “Pair of Brown Birds on Rose Stem with Butterfly and Spider” — 60 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons
Kano Mitsunobu · late 16th century
Pair of Brown Birds on Rose Stem with Butterfly and Spider
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
A Vase of Flowers
Margareta Haverman · 1716
Pair of Brown Birds on Bouquet with Tulip, Rose, and Snapdragons, with Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50
Pair of Birds on Branch with Roses and Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
A Bouquet of Flowers
Clara Peeters · ca. 1612
Brown Bird with Red Head on Carnation Stem with Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
Carpet with Irises, Tulips, and Other Flowering Plants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650
Pair of Brown Birds with Blossoms, Berries, and a Butterfly
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88
Sidewall
York Card & Paper Co., 1891 · 1905–1915
The Emperor's Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century
Black-and-White Mottled Bird on Tulip Stem, with Daffodils and Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
"Red-Headed Vulture and Long-Billed Vulture", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Mansur · verso: ca. 1615–20; recto: ca. 1535–45
Sugar Sifter with Spider Web-Shaped Bowl and Monkey
Charles Victor Gibert, French · ca. 1890
Coverlet
David Daniel Haring · 1834
Blue-Black Bird on Rose Branch with Spider
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
Wine Cooler or Vase on a Classical Pedestal
Aubert Henri Joseph Parent · ca. 1784
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830
Ceiling
Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1500
"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve)
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784 · 1754–1758
The Temptation of Saint Mary Magdalen
Johann Liss · ca. 1626
Blue Bird on Bouquet of Roses and Tulips, with Butterflies
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830
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. 20 matched · 20 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. 3801094 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 22:18 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.