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. 22 shown for “William G. Forbes” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Table Spoon
William G. Forbes · 1770–1800
Myrcia sylvatica (G. Mey.) DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 2002
Mr. Gus Williams the American Star Comique by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · n.d.
Spoon
William G. Forbes · ca. 1790
Keysseria helena (C.N. Forbes & Lydgate) Cabrera
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 2013
Tongs
William G. Forbes · 1800–1830
Fuirena hirsuta (P.J. Bergius) P.L. Forbes
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1984
Teapot
William G. Forbes · 1800–1810
Florence
Baker, Joseph E. · n.d.
Table Spoon
William G. Forbes · 1800–1830
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company print of The Colonel performed by actor Eric Bayley
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · n.d.
Elaeocarpus decipiens F.B. Forbes & Hemsl.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1905
Sugar Bowl
William G. Forbes · 1800–1810
Keysseria helena (C.N. Forbes & Lydgate) Cabrera
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 2013
Caster
William Forbes · ca. 1840
Linnaea borealis var. americana (J. Forbes) Rehder
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1916
Hippopotamus ("William")
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1878 B.C.
Abies amabilis Douglas ex J. Forbes
Artist not stated in the record · 1882
Plateau
John W. Forbes · ca. 1825
Abies amabilis Douglas ex J. Forbes
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Oct 1881
Butter Dish
William Forbes · ca. 1840
Fuirena hirsuta (P.J. Bergius) P.L. Forbes
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1920
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. 3879 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1006934 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 13:02 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.