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 “Animals, plants, and other abstract motifs” — 24 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:12 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.
Scarab Inscribed with a Grazing Antelope
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
The Flims Room
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1682–84
Twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Bowl with zoomorphic motifs
Paracas artist(s) · 350–200 BCE
Coffeepot
Meissen Manufactory · manufactured ca. 1715–20; decorated ca. 1728–30
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449
Modified celt-pendant with incised motifs
Olmec artist(s) · 900–600 BCE
Virgin and Child with Angels
Bernard van Orley · ca. 1518
Center Table
Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company · 1870–75
A Hypocrite and a Slanderer
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · ca. 1770–83
Carpet with Irises, Tulips, and Other Flowering Plants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650
Glass mosaic plaque fragment with floral motifs
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE–1st century CE
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. 1485 matched · 24 examined · 8 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 2026-09-02 07:12 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.