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 “Cicada” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cicada
Artist not stated in the record
Cicada
Unidentified · 206 B.C.-220 A.D.
Cicada
Wu Xizai · dated 1852
Matchsafe in the form of a Cicada
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Cicada on a Grapevine
Bokurin Guan · late 14th–early 15th century
Astragalus cicadae M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1908
Cicada
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th to early 20th century
Astragalus cicadae M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 1896
Cicada
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century
Astragalus cicadae M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1908
Cicada
Artist not stated in the record
Astragalus cicadae M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1908
Figure of a cicada
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century
Astragalus cicadae M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · May 1892
Brooch in the Form of a Cicada
Artist not stated in the record · 350–450
Astragalus cicadae M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1938
Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragonfly (obverse); Praying Mantis (reverse)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Astragalus cicadae M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Apr 1933
Ornamental Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century
Astragalus cicadae M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 1971
Netsuke of Cicada
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Astragalus cicadae M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1937
Gourd and Cicada
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Astragalus cicadae M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1953
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. 42 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 52 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-03 00:26 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.