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 “Ceremonial dagger-ax (Ge)” — 59 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ceremonial dagger-ax (Ge)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–11th century BCE
Dagger-axe (ge 戈), fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250-ca. 1050 BCE
Ceremonial dagger-ax (Ge)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–11th century BCE
Dagger-axe (ge 戈), fragment reworked
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300-ca. 1050 BCE
Dagger-Ax (Ge)
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE
Dagger-axe (ge 戈) with bird, fragment reworked
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300-ca. 1050 BCE
Dagger-axe (Ge)
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–11th century BCE
Dagger-axe (ge 戈), fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000-ca. 1400 BCE
Pair of Dagger-Axes (Ge)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE
Dagger-axe (ge 戈)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600-ca. 1050 BCE
Dagger-Ax (Ge)
Artist not stated in the record
Dagger-axe (ge) with dragons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200 BCE
Dagger-Ax (Ge)
Artist not stated in the record
Dagger-axe (ge 戈)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300-1050 BCE
Dagger-Ax (Ge)
Artist not stated in the record
Dagger-axe (ge 戈), fragment reworked
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000-ca. 1400 BCE
Ceremonial dagger-ax
Artist not stated in the record
Dagger-axe (ge 戈), fragment reworked
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000-ca. 1400 BCE
Ceremonial dagger-ax?
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE
Dagger-axe (ge 戈)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000-ca. 1400 BCE
Ewer and stand (présentoir)
Martin Gizl · 1758
Dagger-axe (ge), fragment reworked, with masks, dragon heads, and raised dragon elements
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century
Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru
Huang Tingjian · ca. 1095
Axe shaft cap
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3300-2250 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. 19 matched · 19 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. 2344 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-28 17:03 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.