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 “York Card & Paper Co., 1891” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Cloisters Playing Cards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
Ceiling paper
York Card & Paper Co., 1891 · 1905–1915
Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–mid-17th century
Ceiling paper
York Card & Paper Co., 1891 · 1905–1915
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Ceiling paper
York Card & Paper Co., 1891 · 1905–1915
Aman-Jean (Portrait of Edmond François Aman-Jean)
Georges Seurat · 1882–83
Sidewall
York Card & Paper Co., 1891 · 1905–1915
The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92
Ceiling paper
York Card & Paper Co., 1891 · 1905–1915
Tahitian Women Bathing
Paul Gauguin · 1892
Ceiling paper
York Card & Paper Co., 1891 · 1905–1915
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Ceiling paper
York Card & Paper Co., 1891 · 1905–1915
Study for "Poseuses"
Georges Seurat · 1886–87
Frieze
York Card & Paper Co., 1891 · 1905–1915
Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88
Sidewall
York Card & Paper Co., 1891 · 1905–1915
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874
Sidewall
York Card & Paper Co., 1891 · 1905–1915
Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji
Tosa School · early 17th century
Sidewall
York Card & Paper Co., 1891 · 1905–1915
Poem by Onakatomi Yoshinobu with Underpainting of Hollyhocks
Shōkadō Shōjō · early 17th century
Frieze
York Card & Paper Co., 1891 · 1905–1915
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. 819 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 6781 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 19:41 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.