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. 24 shown for “Gold finger ring engraved with an image of Hermes” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:47 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 finger ring engraved with an image of Hermes
Artist not stated in the record · late 4th century BCE
Ambrotype of John H. Copeland in an embossed leather case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860
Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881
Tintype of a seated young woman
Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1875
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853
Tintype of a man
Unidentified · late 19th century
The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces
Lambertus Vrythoff · case ca. 1645, movement ca. 1750
Blazer, tie, and belt worn by Ted Corbitt for the 1952 Helsinki XV Olympics
Artist not stated in the record · 1952
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55
Ring owned by Ginger Smock
Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century
Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia
John Targee · ca. 1815–17
Wedding ring belonging to Louise Ayers Church
Unidentified · 1862-1870
Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century
Tintype of a man
Unidentified · late 19th century
Set of jewelry
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE
Tintype of a seated man
Unidentified · 1880s
Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century
No. 126
Ludwig Lobmeyr, Austrian, 1829 - 1917 · ca. 1870
Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–11th century
Tintype of a woman
Unidentified · 1856-1900
Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–11th century
Luff Award ring given to George W. Brett
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1978
Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 9th–11th century
Ambrotype of a young woman holding a white baby
Artist not stated in the record · 1855-1860
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. 445 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. 7484660 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-28 22:47 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.