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. 15 shown for “Crouching tiger” — 50 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Crouching Tiger
Eugène Delacroix · 1839
Crouching tiger
Artist not stated in the record · 220-266
Crouching Tiger Figure
Artist not stated in the record
Possibly weight with a crouching tiger
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Harness Ornament with a Crouching Tiger
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE
A crouching, snarling tiger
Gantoku Aoki (1804-1859) · early 19th century
Vessel in shape of a crouching tiger
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–5th century
Sketches for “The Prudent Tiger” in “Comic Fables, Out of The World Series”
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · ca. 1877
Crouching Baku (Mythical Creature)
Sadatake · 18th century
Fountain; elevation of a church
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1792–1795
Plate
Villeroy · ca. 1740–45
Crouching Female Nude
James Wells Champney, American, 1843–1903 · ca. 1890
Sultan ‘Ali ‘Adil Shah II Slays a Tiger
Bombay Painter · ca. 1660
Landscapes after historical painters
Yun Xiang · datable to 1638 or 1650
Fantastic winged feline
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd 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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2168 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 10:43 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.