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. 19 shown for “Cylinder with a ritual scene” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 16:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cylinder with a ritual scene
Artist not stated in the record · early 2nd millennium BCE
Lidded incense burner (xianglu) with geometric decoration and narrative scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century BCE
Ritual Scene with Senwosret I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.
Self-torture in a Sioux Religious Ceremony
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1835-1837
Funeral Ritual in a Garden, Tomb of Nakhtmin
Charles K. Wilkinson · 1921; original ca. 1479–1425 BCE
Ritual wine ewer (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100-1050 BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 BCE
Safety Valve, Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, R.H. Goddard
Dr. Robert H. Goddard · 1930s
Vessel with ritual scene
Recuay artist(s) · 200–700 CE
Ritual wine container (fangyi) with masks(taotie), serpents, and birds
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100 BCE
Cylinder seal with cultic scene
Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 8th century BCE
Broken Column of the Parthenon, Athens
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869
Bottle with ritual scene
Amapa-Peñitas artist(s) · 1400–1500 CE
The Feast of the Drawing of Water
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Vessel with mythological scene
Metropolitan Painter · 600–800 CE
Earflare with ritual procession
Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE
Earflare with ritual procession
Chimú artist(s) · 1350–1470 CE
Desert Scene with Antelope
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE
Vessel with throne scene
Chamá artist(s) · 600–900 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. 404 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. 1866273 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 16:00 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.