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 “Part of a Shoe Buckle” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Part of a Shoe Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · late 5th century
Shoe, inscribed "Souvenir de Wiesbade"
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Shoe Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · 400–450
Brown alligator skin pumps with buckle
Carlton Originals · 1960s
Gold Shoe Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600
Oxford buckle shoes worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Carlo Morandi, Italian · Mid to late 20th century
Gold Shoe Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600
Gold heeled sandals
Unidentified · 1970s-1980s
Shoe buckles
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Pair of knee buckles
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Shoe buckles
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Shoe Buckles
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Shoe buckles
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Pair of cut-steel shoe buckles
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century
Gold Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · 700s
Pair of shoe buckles
Henry Vintage Allien · ca. 1840
Belt Buckle with an Eagle
Artist not stated in the record · 500–700
Shoe buckles
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790
Gold Strap End from a Shoe Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600
Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790
Buckle Shank
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century
Pair of black stiletto heel shoes by Charles Jourdan from Mae's Millinery Shop
Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994
Buckle
Theodore B. Starr · 1900–1924
Tan T-strap heeled shoes with cut outs
Selby Shoe Co., American, founded 1928 · 1960s-1970s
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. 320 matched · 24 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. 3857542 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 2026-09-03 06:02 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.