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. 12 shown for “Dragon” — 40 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Aeshnidae
Artist not stated in the record · 2013
Aeshnidae
Artist not stated in the record · 2015
Dragons
Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century
Wall Decoration, Dragons, possibly for Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22
Dragon Head
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Mokugyo (Gong) with Dragon Heads
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Ritual wine ewer (gong) with masks (taotie), dragons, and real animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100-1050 BCE
Somatochlora linearis
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 2004
Somatochlora linearis
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 2004
Libellula vibrans
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 2004
Somatochlora linearis
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 2004
Frame with Helmet and Dragons
François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740–68
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 52210 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-27 04:53 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.