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. 18 shown for “W. B. King, American, 1880–1927” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
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Joseph B. Barry and Son · 1810–15
Hold Up Your End! War Fund Week
W. B. King, American, 1880–1927 · 1918
Column Statue of a King
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60
Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images
Artist not stated in the record · 1927
Head of King David
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145
B.B. King Best #1
Artist not stated in the record · 2008
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels
François Boucher · 1765
Parable of the King and His Servants
Lawrence W. Ladd, active 1865-1895 · ca. 1880
The Triumph of Henry IV
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630
Parable of the Marriage of the King's Son
Lawrence W. Ladd, active 1865-1895 · ca. 1880
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Chess Piece, King
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century
Pleurocoronis pluriseta (A. Gray) R.M. King & H. Rob.
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1881
Chess Piece, King
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778
The Visit
Pieter de Hooch · ca. 1657
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519
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. 350 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. 764 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 04:01 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.