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. 22 shown for “Band with Cross and Short-legged Aquatic Birds” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 16:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Band with Cross and Short-legged Aquatic Birds
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–7th century
Band
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century
Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)
Northern Highlands artist · 15th century
Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century
Crucifix with Saint Anthony of Padua
Kongo artist · 16th–18th century (pendant figure); 19th century (cross)
Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246
Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter
Band
Artist not stated in the record · 16th–18th century
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515
US Navy fatigue pants worn by Adm. Michelle Howard as rear admiral (lower half)
Artist not stated in the record · 2009
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
Lidded Vessel
Yoruba artist · 17th–18th century
US Navy fatigue cap worn by Adm. Michelle Howard as rear admiral (lower half)
Artist not stated in the record · 2009
Ear ornament with winged runner
Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE
US Navy fatigue jacket worn by Adm. Michelle Howard as rear admiral (lower half)
Artist not stated in the record · 2009
Ear ornament with winged runner
Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE
Pair of combat boots worn by Adm. Michelle Howard as rear admiral (lower half)
Artist not stated in the record · 2009
Vessel with throne scene
Chamá artist(s) · 600–900 CE
Tabanus bakeri
Artist not stated in the record · 1927
Vessel with mythological scene
Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE
Chair (Sgabello)
Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91
Tabanus lacustris
Artist not stated in the record · 1933
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. 75 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 40 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-29 16:24 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.