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 “Fire-Backed Sunbird, plate 15 from Birds of Western Africa” — 24 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:41 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.
Plate with Water Bird
Artist not stated in the record · late 1400s or early 1500s
Crescent-Shaped Pendant with Confronted Birds
Artist not stated in the record · 11th century
Haremhab as a Scribe of the King
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1314 BCE
Panel from a table carpet showing the Four Continents, the Seasons, and Four Planets
Artist not stated in the record · between 1662 and 1680
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Leaders of the Aamu of Shu
Norman de Garis Davies · ca. 1887–1878 B.C.
Six Jewel Rivers
Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839
Krar (mask)
Mabuiag Island artist · mid to late 19th century
Africa from a set of The Four Continents
Jean Jacques François Le Barbier · designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91
Twelve Crossbow Bolts
Artist not stated in the record · 15th–17th century; j, probably 15th or 16th century
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
Deity figure
Maya artist(s) · 200–600 CE
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. 82 matched · 24 examined · 11 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 2026-08-29 11:41 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.