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. 21 shown for “Decree of Pepi II” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Decree of Pepi II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE
Bocconia arborea S. Watson
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jan 1892 to 6 Feb 1892
Fragmentary decree of King Neferkauhor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2103–2101 BCE
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1812
Royal vessel of the reign of Pepi II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2289–2255 BCE
Trephination Set
Pepys, William Hasledine · mid 1700s
Statue of Kneeling Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE
Surgical Set
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Display dish with Charles II (1630–1685) in a tree
Thomas Toft · ca. 1680
Broadside announcing the sale of enslaved persons in Mercer County, Kentucky
Artist not stated in the record · 1836
Seated Statue of the Nomarch Idu II of Dendera
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE
Broadside announcing the sale of a man, Dick, and a girl, Lydia
Artist not stated in the record · 1857
Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70
Herrania nitida (Poepp.) R.E. Schult.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 1951 to 15 Dec 1951
Kneeling captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE
La Virgen del pilar
José Campeche y Jordán, born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1751-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 1809 · late 18th century
Relief fragment with the head of a goddess
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2353–2152 BCE
Broadside for an auction of enslaved persons at the Charleston courthouse
Unidentified · 1859
Brewer's Vat of Queen Mother Ankhenes-Pepi
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE
Royal head from a small statue
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE
Statue of man hoeing from tomb of Tjeteti
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2200–2152 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. 32 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. 2870921 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:57 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.