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. 13 shown for “Worcester Skirt Company” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 04:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Corset
Worcester Skirt Company · ca. 1869
Worcester, Massachusetts Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897
Cage crinoline
Worcester Skirt Company · 1862–63
Corset
Worcester Skirt Company · ca. 1862
Corset
Worcester Skirt Company · 1861–63
Corset
Worcester Skirt Company · 1866–67
Quadruple orb vase
Worcester factory · 1876
Vase (one of a pair)
Worcester factory · 1879
Moon flask with fretwork center
Worcester factory · 1880
Vase (one of a pair)
Worcester factory · 1879
Moon flask
Worcester factory · 1878
Bamboo vase with flowering cherry blossoms
Worcester factory · 1880
Vase with "lily pattern" (one of a pair)
Worcester factory · 1879
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. 230 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 71413 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 04:54 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.