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 “Watch Chain” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Watch
Pierre Vernede · ca. 1650
Watch chain
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century
Watch
F. L. Meybom · ca. 1670–75
Watch, chain, and key
Artist not stated in the record · 1875–99
Watch with chain
John Wilter · ca. 1775
Watch chain and stud
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century
Watch case
George Harrison · probably ca. 1770
Watch chain
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century
Repeating watch
Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770
Design for a watch chain and two bracelets
Augusto Castellani, Roman, 1829 - 1914 · ca. 1870
Watch
W.A. · 1571
Watch chain fob
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century
Watch
Charles Bobinet · probably ca. 1655–60
Watch Chain
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
Pocket watch
Robert Roskell · 1820–21
Watch Chain and Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50
Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play
Jean Georges (or George) · ca. 1761–62
Gold and steel watch chain
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850
Pocket watch and chain owned by Terrell family
Unidentified · 1863-1954
Clock watch with astronomical dial and sundial
Jan Jansen Bockeltz · ca. 1605–10
John Jay Phelps Seated, Separate Hand and Chain Study
Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1863
Lover’s Eye Watch Fob
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820
Tintype of two men wearing suits
Unidentified · 1855-1860s
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. 36 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 13597 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-01 21:08 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.