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. 9 shown for “Dish with Winged Eros Riding a Lion-Headed Sea Monster” — 11 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 05:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dish with Winged Eros Riding a Lion-Headed Sea Monster
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE
Dish with Nereid Riding a Sea Monster
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE
Bronze cista (toiletries box)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 350–325 BCE
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
Wall painting: Perseus and Andromeda in landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase
Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE
Frieze with Sea Monsters
Johann Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600
Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE
The Cloisters Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60
Perseus Saving Andromeda
Giovanni David · 1775
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 05:11 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.