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 “Bala” — 60 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 03:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bala
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Cassine balae Kosterm.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Sep 1969
Pair of bala players
Dogon blacksmith · 18th–early 19th century
Cassine balae Kosterm.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1971
Saltcellar
Artist not stated in the record · mid-13th century
Alopecurus arundinaceus Poir.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 May 2015
Diadem with Kinnaris (Half-Bird, Half-Female Creatures)
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–10th century
Sclerochloa dura (L.) P. Beauv.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 May 2015
Pair of Ear Plugs with Hamsas (Wild Geese)
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century
Plectranthus kanneliyensis (L.H. Cramer & Balas.) R.H. Willemse
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1974
A Pair of Royal Earrings
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE
Cassine balae Kosterm.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1969
Standing Female Figure with an Offering
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century
Cassine balae Kosterm.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1967
Hinged Armlet
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century
Cassine balae Kosterm.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 28/10/68
One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE
Cassine balae Kosterm.
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1969
Kora
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Cassine balae Kosterm.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Mar 1977
Dagger with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · 1605–27
Cassine balae Kosterm.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1967
One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE
Cassine balae Kosterm.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1975
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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 6 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. 210 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-04 03:22 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.