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. 19 shown for “Amhara artist” — 47 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Icon triptych of Ewosṭatewos and eight of his disciples
Northern Highlands artist · late 17th century
Fly whisk
Amhara artist · Mid-19th century
Tälsäm or yä bərana kətab (healing scroll)
Northern Highlands däbtära (religious scholar) · 19th century
Fly whisk
Amhara artist · Early to mid-19th century
Double Diptych Icon Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
Nephrolepis tuberosa (Willd.) C. Presl
Artist not stated in the record
Book of the Gospels
Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th century
Xylocopa
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Mar 1939
Prayer book with case (mahdar)
Wäldä Maryam · 19th century
Chroococcidiopsis muralis Strain
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 2013
Processional Cross (qäqwami mäsqäl)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century
Hibiscus corymbosus Hochst.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Oct 1996
Hand Cross (mäsqäl)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Hibiscus corymbosus Hochst.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Oct 1996
Ethulia conyzoides L. f.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 16/10/63
Mesocnemis singularis
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1965
Locustella naevia straminea
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Feb 1975
Helichrysum globosum Sch. Bip. ex A. Rich.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1863
Conyza hochstetteri Sch. Bip. ex A. Rich.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 1838
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 64168 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 21:44 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.