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 “William W. Gilbert” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 06:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Creampot
William W. Gilbert · 1790–1800
Alvesia rosmarinifolia Welw.
Artist not stated in the record · 1958
Covered sugar bowl
William W. Gilbert · 1790–1800
Chloroclados philippinensis W.J. Gilbert
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1977
American Longrifle
Nicholas Hawk · ca. 1820–30
Cladophoropsis adhaerens W.J. Gilbert
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1959
George Washington
Gilbert Stuart · begun 1795
Cladophoropsis adhaerens W.J. Gilbert
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1959
Hippopotamus ("William")
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1878 B.C.
Chloroclados philippinensis W.J. Gilbert
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1977
Quilt, Album pattern
Brown and Turner families · begun 1846
Cladophoropsis adhaerens W.J. Gilbert
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1959
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835
Lychaete dotyana (W.J. Gilbert) M.J. Wynne
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1963
Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society
T. Dixon · 1852
Lychaete dotyana (W.J. Gilbert) M.J. Wynne
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1963
Eagle
William Rush · 1809–11
Lychaete dotyana (W.J. Gilbert) M.J. Wynne
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Mar 1959
The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
William Hogarth · 1729
Viola rostrata Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 15/4/38
David Sears, Jr.
Gilbert Stuart · ca. 1815
Trillium flexipes Raf.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 15/4/38
Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845
Waldsteinia fragarioides (Michx.) Tratt.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 15/4/38
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. 7666 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 1048191 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 06:13 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.