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. 16 shown for “William Williams, born Bristol, England 1727-died Bristol, England 1791” — 29 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wineglass
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
The Wiley Family
William Williams, born Bristol, England 1727-died Bristol, England 1791 · 1771
Wineglass
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800
Country Churchyard
Unidentified
Wineglass
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800
A City of Ancient Greece
J. W. Appleton, English, active 1834-1841 · n.d.
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790
Benjamin Lay
William Williams, Sr., 1727 - 27 Apr 1791 · c. 1750-58
Pocket watch
Robert Roskell · 1820–21
Chess Piece in the Form of a Knight
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–60
The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
William Hogarth · 1729
Vase
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Cream pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Cup
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Wineglass
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800
Wineglass
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800
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. 109 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 10:59 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.