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 “Black king” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 14:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Black king
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century
Trematodon ambiguus (Hedw.) Hornsch.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1965
Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE
Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/7/65
Painted wooden panel of Tabakenkhonsu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 680–670 BCE
Blindia acuta
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1959
The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74
Sphagnum fuscum (Schimp.) H. Klinggr.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1928
Statuette of an ancestral king
Artist not stated in the record · 380–246 BCE
Los Reyes Magos
Caban group, active second quarter of 19th century-first half of 20th century · ca. 1875-1900
Fragment of a terracotta calyx-krater (mixing bowl)
Black Fury Painter · ca. 400–380 BCE
Arabis holboellii var. retrofracta Rydb.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1939
Fragment of a terracotta calyx-krater (mixing bowl)
Black Fury Painter · ca. 400–380 BCE
Trentepohlia aurea
Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1965
Chess set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
FOKE-LUSTE-HAJO. A SEMINOLE., from History of the Indian Tribes of North America
McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844 · ca. 1842
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
Fissidens osmundioides Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1959
Hieratic ostracon with short list in red and black
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE
Fissidens osmundioides Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1955
Head of Ptolemy II or III
Artist not stated in the record · 246–222 BCE
Blindia acuta
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1955
Fragment of a Royal Head, Probably Apries
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE
Blindia acuta
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1959
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. 1017 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. 141497 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-08 14:11 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.