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 “Writing box” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Writing Box
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century
Writing box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740
Writing box with design of praying mantis
Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuō)
Writing Box
Unidentified · 1750-1800
Writing Box (Suzuribako) with “Dream in Naniwa” Design
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Writing Box
Unidentified · 1750-1800
Box
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Writing box
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1700
Writing Box
Unidentified · 1750-1800
Box
Artist not stated in the record · 1660–1700
Writing box
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868
Box
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Writing Tool Box
Unidentified · 1750-1800
Box
John Thurston · 1660–85
Alexander Hamilton's Traveling Writing Desk
Artist not stated in the record
Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th century
Declaration of Independence Desk
Randolph, Benjamin · 1775-1776
Writing Box
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century
Whaling Letter from Henry White to Parents, dated April 29, 1861
Artist not stated in the record · 1861
Writing Box
Ogata Kōrin · 18th century
Desk
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900
Writing box
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Advertisement for Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Products
Artist not stated in the record · 1945
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. 263 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. 117826 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 00:53 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.