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 “Glass cup in the form of the head of a Black African” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:57 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.
Glass cup in the form of the head of a Black African
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 1st century CE
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock
James Cox · 1766
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Mechanical table (Table mécanique)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1778
Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75
Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40
Glass cup in the shape of a Black African's head
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 1st century CE
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853
Sallet in the Shape of a Lion's Head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80
Glass pendant in the shape of a Black African’s head
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE
Glass pendant in the shape of a Black African’s head
Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–1st century BCE
Center table
Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia · ca. 1780–85
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. 4935 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 13:57 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.