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. 20 shown for “Gold ring: on bezel, lion” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 03:58 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 ring: on bezel, lion
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE
Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal awarded to Ck2c George Francis Bland
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1990
Set of jewelry
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE
Drawing
Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839 · 1775
Table clock with calendar
Lucien Falize · 1881
Embroidery sample
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1805
Gold and carnelian ring: on scarab bezel, Herakles
Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE
Two Tureens
Artist not stated in the record · 1790
Gold and banded carnelian ring: on scarab bezel, a youth
Artist not stated in the record · 4th-3rd century BCE
Gold ring purse with clear beads
Unidentified · 1960s-1980s
Gold ring: 3 box settings on the bezel and cloisons on the sides
Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE
Design for a Tureen
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800
Repeating watch
Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770
Miser's purse
Artist not stated in the record · 1810–30
Watch
Pierre Vernede · ca. 1650
Shot glass container and cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1880
Alexander the Great (?)
Artist not stated in the record · ring: mid-16th century; cameo: early Hellenistic 4th century BCE
Ganymede jewelry
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE
Smallsword Hilt and Scabbard Mounts
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98
Gold swivel ring with carnelian scarab
Artist not stated in the record · 4th 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. 127 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. 994066 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 03:58 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.