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. 16 shown for “Unknown, Chinese” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Guglet
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1799
Vase
Unknown, Chinese · late 17th century
The Concert from a set of Tapestries "After the Indian Manner"
John Vanderbank · After 1690
Elymus dahuricus Turcz. ex Griseb.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Dec 1910
Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72
Populus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Feb 1911
Chinese Village, Singapore
Unknown · 1860s–70s
Lanius schach schach
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1926
![[Two Chinese Men in Matching Traditional Dress], by Unknown](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP155578.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Two Chinese Men in Matching Traditional Dress]
Unknown · 1870s
![[Portrait of a Chinese Couple], by Unknown](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP155590.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Portrait of a Chinese Couple]
Unknown · 1870s
Wash Basin
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1799
Buddha offering protection
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century CE
Chessmen (32)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · unknown
![[Chinese Man Sitting with Tools], by Unknown](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP155588.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Chinese Man Sitting with Tools]
Unknown · 1870s
Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · probably mid- to late 17th century
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. 148 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 405786 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 19:19 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.