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 “Willets Manufacturing Company” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Basket
Willets Manufacturing Company · 1887–93
Willet, Western Willet
Artist not stated in the record
Vase
Willets Manufacturing Company · 1887–1905
Tropics
Willets Mfg. Co., active 1879 – ca. 1912 · ca. 1875–85
Pitcher
Willets Manufacturing Company · 1887–93
John H. Willets
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Platter
Willets Manufacturing Company · 1883–85
John H. Willets
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Bowl
Willets Manufacturing Company · ca. 1887–1905
Emeline Willet
John Mix Stanley, born Canandaigua, NY 1814-died Detroit, MI 1872 · ca. 1853
Covered Cup and Saucer
Willets Manufacturing Company · 1901
Berniah Willet
John Mix Stanley, born Canandaigua, NY 1814-died Detroit, MI 1872 · ca. 1853
Perfume flask
Willets Manufacturing Company · 1883–87
A. A. Willets
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Plaque
James Callowhill · ca. 1890–1900
Limnanthes bakeri J.T. Howell
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1962
Pitcher
Gorham Manufacturing Company · 1882
A. A. Willets
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Pitcher
American Porcelain Manufacturing Company · 1853–56
A. A. Willets
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Center Table
Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company · 1870–75
A. A. Willets
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Covered vase
Willets Manufacturing Company · ca. 1900
Carte-de-visite portrait of Georgy Willets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870
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. 4629 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. 270484 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-27 20:54 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.