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. 12 shown for “Bronze basin with six legs” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79
Bronze basin with six legs
Artist not stated in the record · legs: ca. 700–650 BCE; handled basin: 6th century BCE
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Rolltop desk
David Roentgen · ca. 1780
Commode
Charles Cressent · ca. 1745–49
Saint John
Antonio Susini · 1596
Buddha Maitreya (Mile)
Artist not stated in the record · dated 486 (10th year of Taihe reign)
Sprite
Donatello · 1432
Saint Sebastian
Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · 1566
Washstand (athénienne or lavabo)
Charles Percier · 1800–1814
Basin with Zodiac Signs and Royal Titles
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century
Bronze leg of a cauldron with horseman
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 8th century BCE
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. 119 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:34 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.