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 or Cover” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 14:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Towel or Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century
Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Panel
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century
Towel or drying rack
United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · ca. 1830
Border
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century
Towel
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century (?)
Towel cover
Maria Schultz · 1838
Towel
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Towel cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1813
Towel
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Towel cover
Lise Weber · 1840
The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597
Towel cover
Elizabeth Witmer · 1847
The Journey of the Magi
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35
Towel cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1826
Woman with a Towel
Edgar Degas · 1894 or 1898
Towel cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1826
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515
Towel cover
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Linen Towel With Reticella Insertion and Bobbin Lace Edging
Artist not stated in the record
Cover
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century
Towel cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1837
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. 5412 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 269120 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 14:21 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.