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 “Richard Morton and Co.” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Coffeepot
Richard Morton and Co. · ca. 1765–70
Thelypteris confluens (Thunb.) C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 1960
Inkstand
Richard Morton and Co. · ca. 1780–85
Besleria aggregata var. semiannularis (C.V. Morton) C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1946
Richard
Morton Schamberg · 1912
Besleria aggregata var. semiannularis (C.V. Morton) C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1942
Smith & Wesson .44 Double-Action Frontier Model Revolver decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 8401), with Case and Cleaning Rod
Smith & Wesson · ca. 1893
Besleria aggregata var. semiannularis (C.V. Morton) C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1942
Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery
Richard Wilson · ca. 1756–57
Lesia savannarum (C.V. Morton) J.L. Clark & J.F. Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1952
Richard Humphreys, the Boxer
John Hoppner
Lesia savannarum (C.V. Morton) J.L. Clark & J.F. Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1951
Jeanne and Richard
Morton Schamberg · 1912
Besleria immitis C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · May 1942
Jeanne and Richard
Morton Schamberg · 1912
Ratibida columnaris (Pursh) D. Don
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1961
Sauceboat
Richard Morton · ca. 1765
Besleria aggregata var. semiannularis (C.V. Morton) C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1944
The Flight into Egypt
Luca Giordano · 1701
Ctenitis sloanei (Poepp. ex Spreng.) C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1949
Center table
John Henry Belter · ca. 1855
Besleria calantha C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jan 1951 to 20 Jan 1951
Angelica and Medoro
François Boucher · 1763
Matteuccia struthiopteris var. pensylvanica (Willd.) C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1933
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. 1411 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1702211 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-02 09:19 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.