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. 10 shown for “Gold and copper alloy spiral earring with lion-griffin head terminal” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gold and copper alloy spiral earring with lion-griffin head terminal
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of the 4th century BCE
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock
James Cox · 1766
Saber and Dart with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75
Gold and copper alloy spiral
Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE
Gilt bronze spiral with lion-griffin terminal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–350 BCE
Two Shield Bosses (Umbos)
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century
Earring with lion-griffin terminal
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE
Funerary mask
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE
Earrings with lion-griffin terminal
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE
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. 62 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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 12:30 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.