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 “Eared Seal, Sea Lion, Fur Seal” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 12:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Chalcedony scaraboid seal
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE
Steatite scaraboid seal
Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE
Scarab with Lion and Uraeus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1500 B.C. (late Middle Bronze Age IIB-IIC)
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunter holding a lion; griffin attacking a stag; Master of Animals; double-headed eagle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: bull-man combatting lion; nude hero combatting water buffalo; inscription
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 BCE
Sealing with stamp seal impressions: radiating griffins; banquet scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE
The Cloisters Apocalypse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1330
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660
Cuneiform prism describing the restoration of Babylon by Esarhaddon, stamped with Assyrian hieroglyphic inscription
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 676–672 BCE
Plaque with horned lion-griffins
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–4th century BCE
Scarab with Antelope and Uraei
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1500 B.C. (late Middle Bronze Age IIB-IIC)
Scarab with Horned Animal and Uraei
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1500 B.C. (late Middle Bronze Age IIB-IIC)
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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 12:39 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.