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. 13 shown for “Thomas Howell” — 57 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Matthew-orama for 1827–or Cockney Gleanings,–Aint that a good un now?
Thomas Howell Jones · March 26, 1827
Thomas Howell Cobb
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)
Miniature tureen with cover
Thomas Howell · ca. 1790
Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain
James McNeill Whistler · 1876, reworked 1885
The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 1
Rudolph Ackermann, London · January–June 1809
Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, and Torah Ark
Artist not stated in the record · 300–350
Bowl with Saints Peter and Paul
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350
Fragmentary Bowl Base with Saint Lawrence
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century
Plate Base with Peregrina between Saints Peter and Paul
Artist not stated in the record · mid-300s
Helmet (Spangenhelm)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century
Medallion with a Portrait of Gennadios
Artist not stated in the record · 250–300
Bowl Base with a Marriage Scene
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century
Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)
Royal Workshops at Greenwich · dated 1527
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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 0 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. 138716 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 01:51 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.