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. 14 shown for “Handle of a Fly Whisk” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Handle of a Fly Whisk
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Fly whisk
Amhara artist · Mid-19th century
Tahiri (handle for a fly whisk)
Mā'ohi artist · 18th century
Fly whisk
Amhara artist · Early to mid-19th century
Tahiri ra'a (fly whisk)
Mā'ohi artist · Early–mid-19th century
Handle Depicting a Lion Subduing a Nubian
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
Naga attendant holding a fly whisk
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century CE
Whip Handle in the Shape of a Horse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE
Fly Whisk
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446
Saya Inrō with Bamboo Grove (exterior) and Rooster with Hen (interior)
Koma Sadahide · second half of the 18th century
Fly whisk gold weight
Akan artist · 18th–19th century
Handle of whip or fly whisk
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-1st millennium BCE
Shiva as Mrityunjaya, the Conquerer of Death
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century
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. 103 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 3928639 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 19:21 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.