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. 19 shown for “Belt buckle with dragons” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Belt buckle with dragons
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Belt with buckle
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Belt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1330–50
Telegraph messenger crossbelt and pouch
Artist not stated in the record · c.1860
Rock Crystal Belt Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 (buckle), 500–600 (tongue)
Belt
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Belt Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · 550–600
Snake-form belt buckle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890
Belt buckle
Carlo Giuliano · ca. 1900
Civil War-era belt buckle from Point of Pines Plantation
Unidentified · ca. 1860
Belt Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600
Tintype of a Civil War soldier
Unidentified · 1861 - 1865
Belt Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th–7th century
Belt
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Belt Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · 600–700
Belt Buckle with a Griffin
Artist not stated in the record · second half 6th century
Belt Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400
Belt Buckle
Artist not stated in the record · about 600
Belt hook with dragons
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. 219 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. 309842 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:05 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.