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. 21 shown for “Gold Nugget” — 58 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Nose ornament
Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 500 BCE–300 CE
Gold Nugget
Artist not stated in the record · 1848
Kuduo vessel
Asante-Akan artist · 18th–19th century
Studs
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Plaque
Artist not stated in the record · 500 BCE–450 CE
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[Gold Nugget]
Unidentified · ca. 1860s
Nose Ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–5th century
NZP-20160729-003SB
Artist not stated in the record · 2016:07:29
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1300–1470 CE
1886 Gold Nugget Watch and Fob
Artist not stated in the record · 1886
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE
Geology Exhibit, Natural History Building
United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1926
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE
Balance
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1849
Container (Kuduo)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Phalaenopsis I-Hsin Sunflower
Artist not stated in the record
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 CE
Phalaenopsis I-Hsin Sunflower
Artist not stated in the record
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1300–1470 CE
Beaker
Chimú artist(s) · 1100–1470 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. 18 matched · 18 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. 32920 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 03:32 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.