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 “Ball of Mud with Seven Seal Impressions of Amenhotep III” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 10:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ball of Mud with Seven Seal Impressions of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Dance card for the University of Illinois Senior Ball
Artist not stated in the record · 1924
Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Miniature Chest of Drawers containing Plaster Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–1860
Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Tassel
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Document Sealing with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Articulated Toast Rack
Christopher Dresser, Scottish, 1834–1904 · 1881–1883
Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Bristol-New York Government Packet Service
Artist not stated in the record · May 1711
Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Cabinet card of an unidentified woman photographed by Ball & Sons
Artist not stated in the record · 1897-1902
Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
George III "composite die" 6-shilling embossed revenue stamp
Artist not stated in the record · 1792
Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Cabinet card of an unidentified seated man with a beard by Ball & Sons
Artist not stated in the record · 1897-1902
Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Handkerchief
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Cabinet card of an unidentified man with a floral backdrop by J.P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900
Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
3c Washington top sheet margin strip of four on cover
Artist not stated in the record · June 24, 1856
Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Button
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
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. 257 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2920304 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-07 10:41 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.