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 “Spence, R. S.” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Finches and bamboo
Emperor Huizong · early 12th century
A Home in the Country (Summer)
Spence, R. S. · ca 1866
David and Goliath
Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast
Sphagnum russowii Warnst.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1992
Scarab Inscribed with the Name and Titles of Vizier Djedkhonsuiufankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 822–745 BCE
Polytrichastrum formosum (Hedw.) G.L. Sm
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1992
Sanford R. Gifford
Launt Thompson · 1871
Rosulabryum billarderi (Schwägr.) J. R. Spence
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Dec 2002
Casket
R. & S. Garrard & Co. · 1875 or 1876
Atriplex lentiformis (Torr.) S. Watson
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Nov 1974
Box with scene depicting Roman hero Gaius Mucius Scaevola before the Etruscan king Lars Porsena
P R · 1741
Atriplex lentiformis (Torr.) S. Watson
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Nov 1974
Slip cup
Judah R. Teaney · 1827
Hibiscadelphus hualalaiensis Rock
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1975
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28
Hibiscadelphus hualalaiensis Rock
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1975
Louis XIII, King of France (b. 1601, r. 1610–43)
Guillaume Dupré · 1623
Kokia drynarioides (Seem.) Lewton
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1975
Double salt
R. P., London · 1620/21
Ficus glabrata Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Nov 1973
Snuff tray
Tiwanaku artist(s) · 500–1000 CE
Grimmia agassizii Sull. & Lesq.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1987
St. John the Evangelist
Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1744
Rhacomitrium aciculare (Hedw.) Brid.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1987
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. 16857 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1644466 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 21:25 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.