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. 15 shown for “Elephant” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century
![Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8156_03-000003.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Cavemen Chasing Elephants [above]; The King of Persia Hunting [below]
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before
Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian
Artist not stated in the record · 521
Fight between Elephants and Snakes
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before
Plaque with the Holy Women at the Sepulchre
Artist not stated in the record · early 10th century
Cavemen Chasing Elephants
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before
Roundel with Scenes of the Attack on the Castle of Love
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320–40
Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 800–825
Icon with the Koimesis
Artist not stated in the record · late 900s
Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 962–968
Plaque with Agnus Dei on a Cross between Emblems of the Four Evangelists
Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1050
Icon with the Crucifixion
Artist not stated in the record · mid-10th century
Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30
Elephant
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Elephant
Artist not stated in the record · first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)
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. 1475 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1818 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 06:59 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.