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. 20 shown for “Fragmentary limestone sphinx” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Fragmentary limestone sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century BCE
Fragmentary sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century
Fragmentary Face of King Khafre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2520–2494 BCE
Polystichum ekmanii Maxon
Artist not stated in the record
Limestone sarcophagus: the Amathus sarcophagus
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 5th century BCE
Selaginella novoleonensis Hieron.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1889
Sphinx of Amenhotep III, possibly from a Model of a Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Cynopterus sphinx sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 1948
Limestone statue of a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–525 BCE
Limestone sphinx supporting a votive bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th or early 5th century BCE
Sphinx of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Cynopterus sphinx sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · -- -- 18--
Fragmentary Head of a Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1080 BCE
Tufa head of sphinx or siren
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–525 BCE
Cynopterus sphinx sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1931
Limestone figure of a draped man
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE
Limestone funerary stele with antithetical sphinxes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 475–450 BCE
Cynopterus sphinx sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1900
Limestone torso of a hunter
Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century CE
Cynopterus sphinx sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 1964
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. 116 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. 25047 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-28 09:25 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.