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 “Capital with Samson and an Attendant Fighting a Lion” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:23 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.
Capital with Samson and an Attendant Fighting a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200
Plaque with equestrian ọ́bà (king) and attendants
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · ca. 1540–70
Springtime
Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873
Samson and the Lion
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30
Samson and Delilah
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1528–30
Head of an attendant bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 565–75
Samson and the Lion, from "The Story of Samson"
Anonymous, French, 16th century · ca. 1560–80
Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE
Stove
David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85
Aquamanile in the Form of a Crowned Centaur Fighting a Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1225
Shakyamuni triad
Unidentified artist · 1565
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. 261 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 2026-08-26 22:23 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.