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. 23 shown for “Dynasty, Chinese, founded 1953” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 04:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sword with Scabbard Mounts
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600
Red floral sleeveless qipao
Dynasty, Chinese, founded 1953 · ca. 1960
Riding through snow in search of plum blossoms
Formerly attributed to Han Huang (723-787) · 17th century
Swords with Scabbard Mounts
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600
Duke Wen of Jin recovering his state
Artist not stated in the record · 16th-17th century
Yangqin (揚琴 )
Shop of Refined Tones, Guangzhou (Canton) · 19th century
Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid
Artist not stated in the record · 475-100 BCE
Pair-case quarter-repeating watch
John Champion · ca. 1770–72
Food vessel (ding)
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century BCE
Suona (嗩吶 )
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Incense Burner
Artist not stated in the record · 7th-8th century
Yunluo (雲鑼 )"Cloud Gong"
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Ritual vessel (huo) in the form of a bird
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE
Club-shaped vase
Chinese · 1662–1722
Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid
Artist not stated in the record · 475 BCE-9 CE
Jar, Jun ware
Chinese · ca. 13th century
Mirror
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Pyriform vase, possibly an imitation of Song Guan ware
Chinese · 16th–17th century
Helmet
Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE
Two-eared jar, Jun ware
Chinese · ca. 13th century
Disk (bi) with raised uniform curls
Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 BCE
Vase
Chinese · probably 19th century
Straight chisel (gui) with raised uniform curls arranged in a grid
Artist not stated in the record · 475-221 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. 350 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. 100988 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-05 04:38 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.