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 “Beaker after an ancient bronze vessel” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations
Mortar
Artist not stated in the record
Beaker after an ancient bronze vessel
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Mortar
Artist not stated in the record
Sword and Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 60 BCE
Ritual vessel (yi) with cover
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE
Jewish Woman of Algiers
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier · 1862
Beaker
Joseph Théodore Deck, French, 1823 - 1891 · ca. 1870
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1300–1470 CE
Ritual wine container (hu) with masks (taotie) and dragons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200 BCE
Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée)
François Joseph Belanger · ca. 1783
beaker
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1827
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE
Ritual wine warmer with taotie
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 11th century BCE
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE
Ritual grain server (gui) with square base and masks, dragons, and birds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 11th-early 10th century BCE
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE
Mortar
Artist not stated in the record · 1575
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE
Mortar
Artist not stated in the record
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1300–1470 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. 736 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 300261 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 11:12 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.