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. 17 shown for “Bird-Headed Figure Whistle” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bird-Headed Figure Whistle
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century
Twin Whistling Pot
Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1400
Bird Head
Artist not stated in the record · Date unknown
Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions
Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800
Double Whistle
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century
Two Projects for Painted Decorations of Panels
Artist not stated in the record · 1580–1590
Whistle
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE
Design for a Cartouche with Three Figures and a Parasol
Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49
Whistle
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE
Coccothraustes carnipes carnipes
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1968
Whistle
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE
Whistle
Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE
Figure Whistle
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–7th century
Whistling Jar
Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1476
Pottery Whistle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–1525
Whistle
Artist not stated in the record · 300–200 BCE
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th 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. 566 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 238 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 10:42 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.