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. 12 shown for “Violin played by the enslaved man Jesse Burke” — 40 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Violin played by the enslaved man Jesse Burke
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1860
Bill of sale for Will, an enslaved man
A. J. Burke, American, born 1817 · 1858
Bill of sale for a girl named Clary purchased by Robert Jardine for 50 pounds
Artist not stated in the record · January 15, 1806
Seven of Hearts
E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century
Design for a mantelpiece
Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1700
Coppa
Giorgio Andreoli, Italian, b. 1465 · 1526
The Music Party
L. Rossi, active in Germany and France, ca. 1850 · ca. 1850
Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Invoice for weaving and the hiring of an enslaved woman, Philice
Artist not stated in the record · 1805-1807
Claim awarded by the Confederate state of South Carolina for enslaved man Dick
Artist not stated in the record · November 23, 1864
Violinist Seated in the Inn
Artist not stated in the record · 1685
Deed of sale for an enslaved man named Pierre
Artist not stated in the record · December 8, 1860
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1435144 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-04 21:23 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.