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 “Bronze ring with carnelian scarab” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 17:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bronze ring with carnelian scarab
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE
Vase
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1909–10
Set of jewelry
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE
Lidded incense burner (xianglu) with geometric decoration and narrative scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE
Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–11th century
Gilt bronze plaque with animals in a landscape
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE
Carnelian scarab
Artist not stated in the record · early 4th century BCE
Cassolette (perfume burner or essence vessel)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785–90
Gold swivel ring with carnelian scarab
Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE
Knob with Escutcheon and Lock Mechanism
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835
Carnelian scarab
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE
Basin with painted decoration
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Gold swivel ring with carnelian scarab
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE
American Defense Service Medal and ribbon bar awarded to George Francis Bland
Joseph A. Kiselewski, American, 1901 - 1988 · ca. 1941
Carnelian scaraboid
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE
Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Gold and carnelian ring: on scarab bezel, Herakles
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE
Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Gold ring with a carnelian scaraboid gem
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE
Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Sard ring stone
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century CE
Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Silver ring with carnelian scarab
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE
Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 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. 39 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. 260041 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-29 17:52 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.