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. 12 shown for “Writing box and desk with scenes from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Writing box and desk with scenes from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century
Scenes from Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)
Tosa School · late 18th century
Writing Box (Suzuribako) with “Dream in Naniwa” Design
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Episodes from the Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)
Nakayama Komin · 19th century
Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
“Mount Utsu” (Utsu no yama), from The Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)
Tawaraya Sōtatsu · ca. 1634
Scenes from the Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)
Tosa School · late 18th century
Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
"At the Edge of the River Akutagawa" from the Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)
Sugimura Jihei
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874
Scenes from the Tales of Ise
Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th century
Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)
Ogata Kōrin · after 1709
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. 58 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:17 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.