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. 24 shown for “European Sitting on a Lion” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
European Sitting on a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century
Saint Mark, seated on a Lion
Antonio Salamanca, Italian, ca. 1500 - 1562 · 1518
Lion
Artist not stated in the record · after 1200
Two Tureens
Artist not stated in the record · 1790
The Repast of the Lion
Henri Rousseau (le Douanier) · ca. 1907
Revenge
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846
Button
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Plate with David Slaying a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630
Cave Lion, Cave Lion, Cave Lion
Artist not stated in the record
Lion (one of a pair)
Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732
Design for a Vase
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764
Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420
Design for a Water Urn with Stand
Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1820–35
Lion
Artist not stated in the record · 1882
Sofa
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1800
Merry Company on a Terrace
Jan Steen · ca. 1670
Panel
Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century
Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30
Subdued, Illustration for Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (LXXVIII, No. CCCCLXIII, December 1888, p. 55)
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · December 1888
Dragon
Artist not stated in the record · after 1200
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
Design for a Frieze
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–75
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. 694 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. 2464428 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-03 08:30 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.