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. 21 shown for “Sir Joseph Noël Paton” — 49 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Milton's Comus
Sir Joseph Noël Paton · 1842–48
Platostoma palustre (Blume) A.J. Paton
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1882
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658
Platostoma hispidum (L.) A.J. Paton
Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1882
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1435
Scutellaria mexicana (Torr.) A.J. Paton
Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1908
The Nativity Polyptych
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1450–60
Scutellaria mexicana (Torr.) A.J. Paton
Artist not stated in the record · 1908
Virgin and Child
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · 1670s
Coleus australis (Br.) A.J. Paton
Artist not stated in the record
Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616
Sir Robert Laird Borden
Joseph De Camp, born Cincinnati, OH 1858-died Boca Grande, FL 1923 · 1920
Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–80
Sir General Arthur William Currie
Joseph De Camp, born Cincinnati, OH 1858-died Boca Grande, FL 1923 · 1920
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Dianella revoluta R. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1980
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
Austrostipa eremophila (Reader) S.W.L. Jacobs & J. Everett
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1980
Hampton Court Palace
Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926 · 1906
Serjania caracasana (Jacq.) Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1995
Serjania pyramidata Radlk.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1995
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 90587 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 07:10 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.