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. 23 shown for “Gold box ring surmounted by a scarab” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 11:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gold box ring surmounted by a scarab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–310 BCE
Beadwork panel
Artist not stated in the record · 1696
Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881
Brooch and box
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880
Scarab
Artist not stated in the record
Altar lamp
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Set of jewelry
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE
Ring owned by Ginger Smock
Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century
Repeating watch
Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770
Turtleback Tile Chandelier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910
The Last Supper
Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325
Heart Scarab of Hatnefer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE
Button
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Scarab ring of Sithathoryunet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887–1813 B.C.
Gold ring purse with clear beads
Unidentified · 1960s-1980s
Scarab Finger Ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.
Towel
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Scarab Finger Ring
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1750 B.C.
Bowl and cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Carnelian scarab
Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE
Design for the Base of an Oil Lamp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1855
Pair-case watch
Thomas Tompion · 1682–83
World War I Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimage Medal issued to Mrs. Margaret A. Neal
Artist not stated in the record · 1930
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. 159 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. 2064647 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-31 11:32 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.