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 “Game Piece with Samson Slaying the Philistines with the Jawbone of an Ass” — 17 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:15 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.
Game Piece with Samson Slaying the Philistines with the Jawbone of an Ass
Artist not stated in the record · 1140–50
Samson Captured by the Philistines
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1619
Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170
Samson and Delilah
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1528–30
Game Piece with the Blinded Samson Led by a Boy to the Philistine Temple of Dagon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150
Game Piece with Hercules Slaying the Three-Headed Geryon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150
Samson and the Philistines
Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1550
Knight Chess Piece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250
Samson holding the jaw bone of an ass over his head and standing next to the Philistines he has just killed, more dead bodies in the background, a tapered composition with rounded top, after Reni
Flaminio Torre (Torri) · ca. 1640–60
Busk
Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1725
Triton
Giambologna · 1590s
Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · 1602 (text); 19th century (paintings, illumination, binding)
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. 17 matched · 17 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 2026-08-28 03:15 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.