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 “Walking plow owned by Joshua Lyles” — 49 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:16 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.
Joshua and David (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410
Walking plow owned by Joshua Lyles
Artist not stated in the record · after 1915
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790
Nine-patch pattern quilt owned by the Russell family of Lyles Station
Katie Mariah Hardiman, American, 1877 - 1954 · 1930s
Julius Caesar (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410
Horse collar owned by Morton Lyles
Unidentified · 19th century
Hector of Troy (?) (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410
Doubletree harness owned by the Lyles family
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s - 1890s
Grainfields
Jacob van Ruisdael · mid- or late 1660s
Scythe owned by George Madison
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1945
King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410
Horse collar owned by the Hardiman family
Homer Hardiman, American · 19th century
A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise
Camille Pissarro · 1874
Carved wooden walking cane owned by Sen. W. Nash
Unidentified · late 19th century
A Boy with a Cat—Morning
Thomas Gainsborough · 1787
Love Will Find a Way
Artist not stated in the record · 1921
Carved wooden cane owned by Carl Brashear
Artist not stated in the record · after 1966
Radio owned by Herman and Minnie Roundtree
Artist not stated in the record · 1948
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 535288 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 22:16 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.