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 “Towel Cover” — 55 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:36 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Towel cover
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Towel cover
Maria Schultz · 1838
Towel Cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1876
Towel cover
Lise Weber · 1840
Towel or Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Towel cover
Elizabeth Witmer · 1847
Kalamkari Rumal (Cover)
Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50
Towel cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1826
Kalamkari Rumal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–50
Towel cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1826
Kalamkari Rumal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–50
Towel cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
Hand-towel Rack (Tenugui kake) with Chrysanthemums and Meandering Stream
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Towel cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1813
Loom Width of Silk Velvet with 'Pinecone' Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Towel cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1837
The Annunciation
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525
Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century
A Dutchman and a Leopard in a Women’s Kimono: “Otora and Ranpei: A Bride on the Wavy Passage to Marriage” (Otora Ranpei michiyuki namiji no anayome)
Ichiryūsai Yoshitoyo · 1860 (Man’en 1), seventh month
Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century
Ensemble
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Border
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century
Shawl
Nadezhda Merlina Manufactory · early 19th century
Linen Towel With Reticella Insertion and Bobbin Lace Edging
Artist not stated in the record
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. 15 matched · 15 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. 36131 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-29 11:36 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.