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. 12 shown for “Head of a Lance” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 13:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Head of a Lance
Artist not stated in the record · 332 BCE–364 CE
Lance
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Head
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 12th–16th century
Lance Head for the Joust of Peace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520–50
Four Lance Heads for the Tournament
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century
Statue of Kneeling Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE
Lance
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Lance
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century
Lance
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Lance
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Lance
Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 31070 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3872722 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 13:57 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.